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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 85
The Scandinavians invaded Mann in A.D. 798.
Those who came to Dubhlinn of Ath Cliath in A.D. 836,
had doubtless visited Man. In 852 they devastated
Mona.
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Nevertheless, the earliest notices connecting our Reginald of
Ostmen of Dublin with the island is, that in 913 "****
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naval engagement was fought at Man between Barid 913.
in which
M;ic-n-Oitir and Ragnall Mac-hUa Imair,
Barid, with almost his entire army, was slain." 1
Ragnal, or Reginald, was king of part of North- Reg-naid was
umberland, and brother of Sitric, then king of8kri*K.l
Dublin, and Barid, or Baidr, was chief of the Nor-
wegians who had settled in Dal Aradia, on the northeast
coast of Ulster, and probably grandson of that
Barid 1 who in A.D. 873, "drew many ships from the
sea westward to Loch Ri," and thence sailed down
the Shannon to Limerick, where he married the
daughter of Uathmharan, 2 and thus their son Colla
became Lord of Limerick in A.D. 922. 8
(Rolt's Hist, of the Isle of Man, p. naught, and died 920 (Ann. 4
3, Lond., 1773.) Mast.). Barith, who married his
1 Ann. tit., 913, alias 914. In daughter, had by her a son named
O'Connor's Rer. Scrip., voL iv., p.
247, he is called Band MacNoitir,
Uathmharan, who came with a
fleet of twenty ships to Ceann
and his opponent Ragnall-h-Imair.
In Johnston's Antiq. Celto-Xor-
Maghair in 919 (Ann. 4 Mast.).
He had another son, Colla, who
man., p. 66, this sea fight was was Lord of Limerick, and had a
between Barred O'Hivaraud Reg- fleet on Loch Ree in 922 (Ann. 4
inald O'lvar ; and the " black Mast.). By an earlier marriage
pagans," who devastated Mona in Barid had a son named Elir, who
852, were probably part of the fleet was killed in Mayo in 887 (Ann. 4
of Aulaf, who came to Dublin in Mast.). The Scandinavians trans-
that or the following year. ported their light-built ships over-
* Ann. 4 Mast., A.D. 878, "Ba- land from the sea to inland waters,
rith, a fierce champion of the and the Irish followed their ex-
Norsemen, was killed, &c." ample. In A.D. 933, " Pomhnall,
s Uathmharan was son of Do- son of Miiin-lu-artndi,'' rarrii-d
bhaik'ii, Lord of Luighno in Con- boats from the River Banu over the