Irish History - Kingdoms of the Vikings
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The Viking Kingdoms of Ireland
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Ostmen - The Norse are those peoples from Scandinavia and northern Germany who spoke a common language, Old Norse. They first appeared in Ireland in the year 795, with a raid on Lambay Island. Throughout the old Irish histories, they are named as Ostmen, Cruithni, foreigners, dark foreigners (Dubgaill), or fair-foreigners (Finngaill), heathens, the Lochlanns, Norsemen, Norse-Irish and Danes. The Gall-Goídil are of mixed Gaelic-Norse origin. It is not always clear whether these terms refer to alliances or nationalities. Llychlyn, Laithlind or Lothlend is an old Gaelic term for Scandinavia. Scandinavians (Ostmen or Austmen) called the Gaels, the Vestmannaeyjar.
Note : A important paper by Donnchadh ó Corráin of University College, Cork, discusses the need to detach the Viking dynasty of Scotland and Ireland from Norway itself where historians have indulged in attempts to attach the Viking kings of the ninth-century Irish annals to the genealogy of the kings of Vestfold in Norway. The Vikings in Scotland and Ireland in the Ninth Century
See also this category for the Uí Ímair Dynasty
Sources
- Celt : Corpus of Electronic Texts (gives access to the Irish Annuls etc.)
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Peterborough manuscript
- Viking Sources in Translation : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Canterbury manuscript
- Wikisource : Íslendingabók, a 12th century history of the foundation of Iceland by Ari Þorgilsson, translated from Icelandic into English by
- The Orkneyinga Saga translated from Icelandic by Jon A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie - ed. with notes & intro. by Joseph Anderson pub: Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas 1873
- Timeline - Wikipedia : 8th century Ireland
- Timeline - Wikipedia : 9th century Ireland
- Timeline - Wikipedia : 10th century Ireland
- Timeline : Wikitree : 11th century Ireland
- Wikitree : Kings of Dublin
- Wikitree : Kings of Waterford
Cork
- Gnimbeolu (Gnim Cinnsiolla) d: 865
- Cork resettled as a trading base in 914
Dyflinn/Dublin (Ath Cliath)
- Kings of Dublin
- Olav Sitricsson (Aulaffe mac-Sitric) 950 - 980
- Járnkné Olafsson (Gluniaran mac-Aulaffe) 980 - 989
- Sihtric Silkbeard (Sitric mac-Aulaffe) 989 - 1029
- Olaf Sihtricsson (Aulaffe mac-Sitric) 1029 - 1035
- Sigtrygg Olafsson Sihtric Olafsson (Sitric mac-Aulaffe) 1035 - 1041
- Gofraid; grandson of Ragnall (i.e. king of Ath Cliath) 1072, submitted to Tairdelbach Ua Briain, king of Mumu as high-king of Ireland.
Limerick
- Tomrair mac Ailchi from c. 922
- Amlaíb Cenncairech 930s
- Colla mac Báirid d: 932
- Harald Sigtryggsson d: 940
- Ivar of Limerick d: 977
Ulster
- a great Viking fleet established on Lough Neagh in 839
- Íomhair in Cavan c. 850
- Ruarc in Cavan c. 880
Waterford
- Ottir (Ottir Dub) 914–917
- Ragnall ua Ímair 917-920/1
- Ivar of Waterford (Ímar) 969 - 1000
- Ragnall ua Ímair King of Waterford
- Sitriuc Mac Ímair ... - 1022
- Ragnall ua Ímair 1022-1035
- Cú Inmain ua Robann, king of Port Láirce, was, killed by his own people in 1037
Wexford
- Viking settled Waesfiorde from c. 819
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