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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 77
married " Raughill the Mighty." 1 We
find no trace BOOK L
of polygamy among the royal families of Ireland ;
but in their alliances with Aulaf there is evidence
that repudiation and divorce were not unknown to
them.
Maelmhuire, daughter of Kenneth, King of the Princely Scan
dinavian and
Scots, 8 '
married Aedh Finnlaith, by whom she Irish had ' J
riages.
Niall Glundubh, King of Ireland. After Aedh's death
Maelmhuire married his successor, Flann Sinna, by
whom she had Gormflaith, who first married Cormac
Cuilennan, King and Bishop of Cashel, and being put
away by him she married Cearbhall, son of Murigen,
King of Leinster, and then married Niall Glundubh,
her step-brother, by whom she had Muircheartach
of the Leather Cloaks, King
of Ireland. 3
Maelmhu ire's daughter, Dunlaith, first married Irish connex-
Domhnall Donn, son of Donnchadh Donn, 4
by whom fona.
she had Maelseachlainn, and then married Aulaf
Cuaran, by whom she had Gluniarain ; thus Mael-
1
Harald Harfagre Saga, c. xxi. Finnlaith, -who was his mother's
2
Ogygia, P- 484. Maelmhuire, second husband. Three Fragthe
follower of Mary; she died ments, pp. 157 and 179. Flann
A.D. 910. married a third time Gaithen, by
3 Ann. Clonmac. gives the order whom she had Cennedigh, and
of her marriages differently First, according to Ann. Ult., "in penishe
married Cormac Cuileannain ; tentia dormivit," A.D. 889.
second, Niall Glundubh and ; third,
Cearbhall; but this would imply that
* Dunlaith was probably in
Aulafs " strong fortress" of Dublin
she was also repudiated by Niall in 939, when her father came to it,
Glundubh, as he lived ten years and was that " Damsel whose soul
after Cearbhall. Aedh Finnlaith the son of Niall was, and who came
was also married to Flann or Lan, forth until she was outside the walls,
daughter of Dunlang of Ossory, the although the night was constantly
widow of Maelseachlainn I., by bad." Circuit of Ireland, p. 33.
whom she was the mother of Flann (Archneolog. Soc. of Ireland*!
Sinna; and Flann Sinna married Tracts.)
Maelmhuire, the widow of Aedh