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BOOK I.
CHAP. II.
36 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
and all the other churches of Lough Bei-g, in like manner. "NVith
this view he placed
his wife Ota at Clonmacnois, :it that time;
second only to Armagh in ecclesiastical importance, who gave her
audiences, or, according to another, reading
her oracular an
from the high altar of the principal church of the monastery."-
" "
(Ibid., xlvi.-xlix.) At this period (A.D. 839), continues Dr.
Todd, " our author says the sea seemed to vomit forth floods of
invaders, so that '
there was not a point of Ireland without a fleet.'"
In the same year (A.D. 845) "Turgesius was arrested in his
victorious course, and drowned in Loch TJair by Maelsechlainu
(Malachy I.), then King of Meath, who soon afterwards succeeded
to the throne of Ireland." (Ibid., li.)]
CHAPTER III.
Ivar, conqueror and King of Northumbria, identified with Ivar, King of
Dublin. Of the joint career of Aulaf and Ivar Ivar's successors in
East Anglia and Northumbria.
CHAP. IIL TURNING from this attempt to solve the difficulties
in Regnar Lodbrog's story we proceed to the easier
task of identifying his son Ivar, the conqueror of
Northumberland, with that "Ivar, King of the Norsemen
of Ireland and Britain," 1 who reigned and died
in Dublin, A.D. 872, and whose descendants were its
joint invasion succeeding kings. Ivar had invaded Ireland before
K A 1 f t
Dublin and the arrival of Olaf the White, and was subsequently
Ivar from Den- - . . .. . .
mark of the his companion in many expeditions, but did not
Scottish Picts,
A.D. 865. accompany mm in 865, when, with " his chieftains,
and followed by all the Galls of Ireland and Scot-
land," Aulaf went to Fortren, the capital of Pictavia, 8
and spoiled the Picts. 3
1
[Wars of the Gaedhil with the
(raill, p. Ixxx.]
* [Fortren, Fifeshire.]
8 Ann. Ult., 865. Aulaf was
allied by marriage to Kenneth
King of the Scots, who brought, fix-
Picts under his government in
843, and whose eon Constantino