 The pair returned to Dublin in 871 with 200 ships and they "brought with them in captivity a great prey of Angles, Britons and Picts".Amlaíb's return to Dublin in 871 is the final time he is mentioned in contemporary annals, but according to the "Fragmentary Annals" he returned to Lochlann that year to aid his father Gofraid in a war.According to the "Pictish Chronicle", he died around 874 during a protracted campaign against Constantine I in Scotland