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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 33
Nor should we omit to observe that the fact of BOOK L
Iiegnar Lodbrog's death, not in Northumberland but
CHAP* IL
in Ireland, would explain what otherwise appears
inconsistent in the proceedings of his son. For if
Ivar's object were to avenge his father's death, it
would show why Ireland, and not England, was the
country he first invaded ; and it would not appear
extraordinary that when he subsequently invaded
England, he landed in East Anglia, having sailed past
Northumbria without any attempt to molest its people
or their king, a course difficult to account for if it
were in Northumbria Iiegnar perished, and that there
his slayer reigned.
NOTE.
[The following particulars of the rule of Turgesius in Account of
Ireland are from " The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill,"
not published tiU after the death of Mr. Haliday :
Chapter vi. records the first invasion of Ulster tbe GaUL
(A.D. 824) ;
"
Chapter vn. gives the invasion and plunder of Leinster ; Chapter
vni. the arrival of a fleet at Limerick (A.D. 834) ; Chapter ix., is as
follows :
" There came after that a great royal fleet into the north of Erinn TnrgeLs in the
with Turgeis, who assumed the sovereignty of the foreigners of Erinn ; iand assumes
and the north of Erinn was plundered by them ; and they spread them- the sovereignty
selves overLethChuinn" (the northern half of Ireland, as divided by er8) ^^ 839.
a line drawn from Dublin to Gal "
way). A fleet of them also entered
Loch Eathach (Lough Neagh), and another fleet entered Lughbudh
(Louth), and another fleet entered Loch Rae (Lough Ree, a swell
of the Shannon, between the counties of Longford and Roscommon).
Moreover Ard Macha (Armagh) was plundered three times in the
Eorum filius fuit Canutus, Hordak- Canuti exposititii qui totum regnum
nutus dictus qui in Selandia Scania pro Ilegnari
filiis administravit,
et Hollandia post patrem suiim dura illi expcditionibus bellicis oc-
regnum nactus eat. Vikia vero ab cupati erant. Olaf Trygr., vol. i.,
illo tune defecit. Hie filium no- p. 72. Des Roches Hist, de Damn.,
mine Gormonem habuit. Hie de- vol. i., p. cxxv.
noininatus est a suo nutritio, filio