Note 478 — Chapter XI

Macpherson, in his “Annals of Commerce,” vol. i. p. 254, says that “the Norwegians and Danes, under the names of Ostmen (i.e. eastern men), Gauls, Gentiles, Pagans, &c., were the chief, or rather the only commercial, people in Ireland, and continued for several centuries to carry on trade with the mother countries, and other places on the west coast of Europe, from their Irish settlements.”