Circumstances forced me to attack the northumbrians first instead of the irish, so I shifted my focus to conquer all of mainland england. Fighting some Saxon Huscarles was the most challenging part. I think I saw them slaughter quite a few of my viking carls...

Anyway, after securing the mainland I took my 3 best generals and their full armies to the Irish and finished them off easily.

Finished my Viking campaign on hard by the year 884... on to Rome...