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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 87
the latter title being that of admiral or chief of
seamen, derived from the command of some portion
of the fleet which Edgar had organized 5 for the pro-
tection of his kingdom, and which annually sailed
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round its coast. Maccus, however, was one of the Maccus attends
eight tributary kings who attended Edgar at Chester Chester, A.U.
in A.D. 973, and rowed his barge on the Dee, 3 the
name being placed next after that of " Kenneth,
King of the Scots, and Malcolm, King of Cumber-
land, as Maccus, King of Man, and many other isles;" 4
nor can there be much doubt that the connexions of
this tributary king with Dublin, Waterford, Limerick,
&c., and his exploits in Meath and on the Shannon,
were the grounds for Edgar's forged claim to dorni- ForRed claim
nion over " all the kingdom of the islands of the dominion in
ocean, with their fierce kings, as far as Norway, and
the greater part of Ireland, with its most noble city
of Dublin." Maccus, like Reginald, was a descendant
of Ivar. He was the grandson of Sitric, King of Maccus grandt
/ TT TIT i / T i i 8OD f Sitric K.
Dublin, and son ol Harald, Lord ol Limerick, who of Dublin,
was slain in 938. Nor would he have been unjustly
styled " archi-pirata," supposing that title synonymous
with the Scandinavian term " Vikingr," for,
according to Welsh historians, "Mactus, the son of
Harald, with an army of Danes, entered the island
of Anglesea (Mona), and spoiled Penmon " in 969, 5
and although he could not retain possession, " being
forced to return home," 6
1
Ego, Maccusius, ArcLipirata,
confortaoi. Codex Diplomaticus
yet in the following year
8 Will. Malmesbur., cap. viii.
4 Matth. Westmonast., A.D. 964,
Anglo Saxonicus. J. T. Kemble, p. 375 ; Flor. Vigorn., p. 78.
8
Caradoc, p. 57. Chron. Princes
vol. 3, p. 69.
2 Spclman, Glossar. iu voce of Wales, A.D. 969.
p. 4GO.
* Ib'ul.