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90 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
BOOK ii. to the chronicle of Wales, the pagans " devastated
Llanbadarn, Menevia, Llanilltut," &C., 1
having pre-
viously (that is, in 986) visited the Isle of Man, when
"the battle of Manann was fought by Mac Aralt
and the foreigners." 2
s. of For later events we are generally referred to the
D.iocc. " Chronicle of Man," an authority which cannot bo
implicitly relied on, either for facts or dates. This
chronicle, which commences A.D. 1000, contains
nothing relating to the island until A.D. 1065, when
it states, that " Godred Crovan, son of Harald the
Black of Ysland (Ireland), fled to Godred, the son of
Sytric, at that time King of Man," 3 and after his death
Godred Crovan is said to have conquered Man, and
His apocryphal in A.D. 1066 (=1075), to have "reduced Dublin, and a
DuSmTand great part of Laynester." 4 Godred Crovan probably
ter*
was son of Reginald (whose son was elected King of
the Galls in A.D. 1046), 5 as many of the Scandina-
vians of Ireland had been at the battle of Stamford-
bridge with Earl Tostig and King Harald Hardraad,
in A.D. 1066 6
or whatever
; but whoever he was,
conquests he may have made elsewhere,
there is no
allusion in Irish annals, or contemporary history, to
any conquest of Dublin, or of any portion of Leinster.
intermarriages When the Ostmen of Dublin were converted to
inshTiTiith Christianity, their intermarriages
with the Irish
became so frequent, and the morality of the period
was so lax, in repudiation, divorces, and marriage of
1 Chron. Princes of Wales, 987. Antiq. Celto-Norm., Copenhagen,
Ann. Ulst., 986 in Ann. 4 1786.
Mast., vol. ii., p. 720, n. n .
* Camden's Britt., vol. iii.,p. 705.
8 One copy was published, Cam- 6 Ann. 4 Mast., A.D. 1046.
den, 1607, another by Johnstone, Anglo-Saxon Chron., A.I). 1066,