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Scandinavian Relations with Ireland During the Viking Period

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Aedh Finnliath, 10, 15.

Albann, brother of Ivarr the Boneless, 4.

Albdann, son of Gothfrith, 22 n.

Altar-ring, 53, 54.

aonach, 30, 67.

Armagh, 21-22, 48, 52, 55.

Art, Scandinavian influence on Irish, 20.

Authr, wife of Olaf the White, 15, 48, 72;

wife of Turgéis, 47.

Brian Borumha, 7-8, 29, 37-38.

Brunanburh, battle of, 6, 24.

Burial mounds, 12.

Canterbury, 55-56.

Carlingford Lough, battle of, 3, 13, 50-51.

Cearbhall, king of Ossory, 13-15, 50, 72, 73.

Cellachan, king of Cashel, 26, 36-37.

Chester, siege of, 12.

Clontarf, battle of, 8-9, 54.

Colla, 25.

Cork, 27, 30.

Danes, 2-4, 12, 13, 24-27, 50-1.

dóm-hringr, 53-4.

Dublin, fortress built at, 2;

seat of Scandinavian kings, 3, 5-7;

Vikings driven from, 5;

coins minted in, 19;

early history, 21-3;

as a trade centre, 30-1, 70-1.

epscop, 29.

Eric Blood-axe, 7.

Fingal, 8.

Finn Gaill, 3 n.

Gaill-Gaedhil, 10-11, 38.

gelt, 44.

Gleann Máma, battle of, 8, 30, 54.

Gluniarainn, 17-8.

Gnimcinnsiolla, 27.

Gormflaith, wife of Brian Borumha, 8, 17, 54;

wife of Niall Glundubh, 68.

Gothfrith, king of Dublin, 6, 24.

Heathenism, 47-8, 50-4.

Hebrides, 17, 25, 36, 41 n., 48-9.

Iceland, 13 n., 8, 57-8, 66, 71.

Ivarr the boneless, 3-4, 11, 48;

king of Limerick, 7, 24, 70 n.,

king of Waterford, 18.

Ketill Flatnose, 48-9;

Ketill “the foolish,” 49, 72.

Kilmashogue, battle of, 5.

lagmainn, 41.

Lambey, 1.

Limerick, 7, 9, 23-5, 30-1.

longphort, 2, 34, 35.

Mac Liag, 70.

Maelsechnaill I (Malachy), 2, 11;

Maelsechnaill II, 7-8, 17, 70.

Melkorka, 16, 31, 73.

Morann, son of the king of Lewis, 25.

Muirchertach of the Leather Cloaks, 6, 16-7.

Niall Glundubh, 5, 68.

Norsemen, passim.

Northumbria, 5-7.

Norway, 4, 16, 32, 59.

Olaf Cuaran (Sihtricsson), 6-7, 17, 34, 40, 53, 71;

Godfreyson, 6, 26;

Olaf the White, 3-4, 11-2, 15, 48;

Trygvasson, 13-4.

Ostmen, 9, 26.

Ota, wife of Turgéis, 2, 47.

Place-names, Scandinavian influence on Irish, 27-8;

Irish influence on Icelandic, 45-6.

prime-signing, 75.

Raghnall, grandson of Ivarr, 5, 25.

Runic inscriptions, 27 n., 51-2.

Settlers in Iceland, 13 n., 71, 72.

Sihtric Silken Beard, 8, 19, 34, 54-5, 70.

Sigurd, earl of Orkney, 8, 15 n.

Slave traffic, 32-3, 72-3.

Story-telling in Iceland, 58-64;

in Ireland, 67-9.

Sulcoit, battle of, 7.

Tengmouth, 22 n.

thing, 22, 61, 67.

Turgeis, 1-2, 21, 23.

Waterford, 5, 9, 23, 25-6, 30.

Wexford, 22, 23, 30.

völva, 47.

York, 5, 6, 23.

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