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BOOK L
38 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
" went into Mercia to Nottingham and there took up
their winter quarters," 1 we find Aulaf returning to
Ireland, landing in the north, plundering Armagh,
and "burning the town and oratories," 2 his "Dun,"
at Clondalkin, having been burned by the Irish, 3 and
his eldest son, Carlus, slain in battle during his
absence. 4
irarand In 869 the Danish "army again went to York
Aulafs second i/ > 5 IPT-I
invasion of the and sate there for a year, at the end of which Aulaf
Scottish Picte, . . .
A.D.869. and Ivar once more sailed for bcotland to join in
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another invasion, which, like the preceding, was
apparently a combined attack by fleets and armies
from Dublin and Denmark. According to Roger
of Wendover, A.D. "870, an innumerable multitude of
Danes landed in Scotland, at Berwick-on-Tweed,
under the command of Hinguar and Hubba;" and
the Annals of Innisfallen state that in A.D. 870 Aulaf
and Ivar sailed from Dublin "with a fleet of 200
ships to assist these Danes in Britain." Berwick-onbe
here a mistake for Berwick on the
Tweed may
Frith of Forth (Mare Pictum), one of those inlets
which would have facilitated the attack on the Picts
and Strathclyde Britons, whose capital, " Alcluit, was
besieged (in A.D. 870) by the Norsemen under these
two kings, Ivar and Aulaf, who took and destroyed
it after a siege of four months." 6
1 Sax. Chron., 868. country about as they had prc-
2 Ann. Ult., 868 ; Ann. 4 Mast., determined to do." Neither Sax.
p. 511, n. Chron.,Hoveden,norSim.Dunhclm.
8 Ann. 4 Mast, 865. mention the landing in Scotland,
4 Ann. 4 Mast., 866. but state that, A.D. 870, many
6 Sax. Chron, 869. thousand Danes, under Hinguar
Roger de Wendover, 870, who and Hubba, landed in England.
adds, that "they plundered the Ann. Innisf., 870, M'Geoghegan