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20 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
BOOK i. various names of Aulaf, Aulaiv, Anililaeibh, Amaleff,
CHAP_II. and Amlevus, was Qlaf the White," son of Inguald,
king of Uplands, a descendant of Regnar Lodbrog, one
of the preceding invaders. 1
Northern history states that in one of his viking
expeditions Olaf took Dublin, and was made king of
it, and of the " Dyflinarskidi," 2 a territory around
the city, and this statement is corroborated by Irish
annals that he was made king of Dublin, and " of
the land in Ireland called Fingal "- that he built a
"Dun" at Clondalkin, and that he "exacted rent
(scatt)
from the Irish." 3
Fingal being the northern
part of the Dyflinarskidi, and Clondalkin being in
the southern part, about four miles from the city
fortress.
Legend of the Modern history adds that. Aulaf was accompanied
brothers J
Aulaf, .
Sitric, and ivar bv his brothers. Sitric and Ivar that "they built
founding Dub-
"
lin, Waterford, first the three cities of Dublin, Waterford, and
and Limerick,
disproved. Limerick, of which Dublin fell to the share and was
under the government of Aulaf, Waterford of Sitric,
1
Eyrbyggia Saga, p. 5. " Oleifrhinn
Hvite," or Olaf the White,
was son of Inguald, son of Thora,
daughter of Sigurd Anguioculus,
son of Regnar Lodbrog.
In Landnamabok, p. 106, he
is stated to be " son of King
Inguald, son of Helgi (and Thora),
son of Olaf, son of Gudrand, son
of Halfden Whitefoot, king of Uplands.
"
2
Landnamabok, Havnifc, 1774,
p. 106, " Dyflina a Irlandi oc
Dyflinarskidi." Jn Magnus Bare-
foot's Saga, c.
Dyflinarskiri.
.\.\v., it is called
8 Ann. 4 Mast. A.D. 866. This
Dun or residence of Aulaf was
burned by the Irish during his
absence in Scotland in A.D. 868.
[" AmlafTs fortress (lonspofic) at
Clondalkin had been burned by the
Irish (865=808, Four Mast.), who
gibbeted 100 heads of the slain.
The next year his son Carlus fell
in battle. These outrages probably
excited his thirst for vengeance ; and
on his return in 870 he plundered
and burned Armagh (Four Mast.
867=870)." War of the flnoflhil
with the Gaill, p. Ixxx. (Dr. T
Note.)]