All through the long and desperate struggle the young nobleman kept his place, praying for the dead and dying on both sides, and he seemed to have a charmed life; for although arrows flew in hundreds round him, and the clash of steel resounded on every side, and men fell mortally wounded at his feet, no ill befell him.

At last, when Hugh the Brave had been slain, the Welsh took to flight and Magnus Bareleg was left victor. It is said that Earl Erlend, Magnus’s brother, fell in this battle also.

After this conflict the Norse King took a deep dislike to Earl Magnus. Perhaps he was shamed by the young man’s behaviour, for his conscience must have told him that he, too, had no quarrel with the Welsh, and therefore he had no right to attack and vanquish them.