the Irish representative glares across the chamber at the Norseman

Sir, your Prince the murderer Knud may have defeated an eager gang of stone-hurlers the good King Domnall had no better use for, but he should be aware while he continues to skulk in the woods like a dog that his fate will find him there soon enough.

And as any civilized and Catholic man knows, there are no snakes in Ireland since St Padraigh did drive them out...where they went to nobody knows, but as I remember it they were last seen heading North...