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Is defeated by
G2 TIIF. SCANDINAVIANS, AND
so signally defeated, that " the few who escj
their safety to the darkness of the night." 1
Muin-iipfirtach, Nor was it the Irish alone who en^afjcd Godfn -v's
>on of Nial J
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, A.D. attention.
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Goruio-hin-Gamle/' grandson of Gormo Enske,
Denmark, sends . . i T>
his sons to aid at this time reigned m Denmark and held dominion
the Danes of _, AT TT i i m
EastAngiia, over .Last Anglia. Me had married Jhyra, the
daughter of King Edward, 3 and when Edward sought
to subjugate East Anglia in 921, Gormo's sons,
Canute and flarald, went to England, 4
and, doubtless,
were those termed in the Saxon Chronicle " the
pirates whom (the East Anglian s) had enticed to
aid them." 5
But the East Anglians been defeated,
and having accepted Edward as their sovereign,
swearing "oneness with him, that they
all would
Cannteand that he would," 6 Canute and Harald left East Anglia
Haruldsail
i -i i /> T i r T> i i
thence to and sailed for Limerick where sons of Reginald and
t)22. of Sitric then resided.
s
Their father, Gormo, who had renounced Chris-
tianity and returned to the worship of Thor, was
called by the Irish "Tomar" or Thorsman, and
"Mac Elchi" as the son (recte grandson) of "Gormo
Enske." 7
1 Ann. 4 Mast., 919 (= 921). morituro heredes scribuntur."
* Gormo III., called Gormo * Sax. Cbron., where the date is
Grandoevus, or the old : he was son 921.
of Harald the grandson of Gormo 6 Ibid.
Enske. Langebek, vol. i., pp. 17-20.
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Gormo, "Hie Cliristianis in-
8 Langebek, vol. i., p. 37. She festissimus fuit, renovavit Llol.-i-
was called Dana Bota. triam, Ecclesiam constructam circa
4 Ibid. A.D. 924, p. 37, "Canutus Sleswic fundittis dcstruxit."_ I.nii-
et Ilaraldus, principes juventutis, gebt-k, vol. ii., p. 345, et vol. i.,
in Angliam profecti, Gormonis Hi., p. 158, Ann. Bartholini, A.D. 934
Danorum tyranni, filii, ab avo " Gormoniana persecutio."
niatcrno Edwardo.Rege Anglorum