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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. G5
The alliance between the Saxon and the Dane BOOK i.
was doubly cemented, for when "King Athelstan
and King Sitric came together at Tamworth, on the succeeds, and
3rd of the kalends of February, Athelstan gave him with sitric.
his sister in marriage," 1
and Sitric consented to be
baptized ; but neither matrimony or Christianity
were ties which could bind Sitric, for, unsteady in
his faith and forgetful of his vows, he soon repudiated
his wife, " rejected Christianity, and returned
to the worship of idols " 2 he had abandoned.
The apostate did not long survive. In 926 Sitric, sitricdies, and
grandson of Ivar, " lord of the Dubhghoill and Finn- annexes North.
ghoill," 3 or as he is called in the Ulster Annals, A.D. 920,
" Sitric O'Himar, prince of the New and Old Danes," 4
died, leaving three sons, Reginald, Godfrey, and
Aulaf, who came to Ireland, not being permitted to sunc and sons
inherit the English dominion of their father, whose land,
brother-in-law, King Athelstan, obtained the kingdom
of Northumbria.
This annexation of Northumbria to the Anglo- Godfrey, King
. of
, Dublin,
Saxon crown was not in accordance with the right attempts to
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succession claimed by Godfrey, King of Dublin, u
the son of Reginald. Godfrey, therefore, " with his
foreigners left Ath Cliath," 5 and accompanied by the
1 Sax. Chron., A.D. 925. Editha "The plundering of Gill dara by
was daughter of Edward and sister the son of Godfrey of Port Lairge."
'
Kil-
of Thyra, who had married Gormo. Ann. Clonm., 923 (=928).
the son of
- Matth. Westm., A.D. 925. dare was ransacked by
8 Ann. 4 Mast., 925 (=926). Sax. Godfrey
of Waterford." Ann. 4
Chron. also gives 926 as the date Mast., 929. "Godfrey (son of Regi-
of Sitric's death. nald) went into Osraighe, to expel
* Ann. Ult., 926. They appear the grandson of Imhar" (that is
to have landed at Waterford, Godfrey the son of Sitric from
where their uncle Reginald had Magh Roighne).
been. Ann. 4 Mast., A.D. 923.
6 Ann. 4 Mast, 925 (=926).