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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 91
kindred, that it is doubtful whether the kings
Dublin during the eleventh century should be called
of BOOK n.
c "Ar' '
Irish or Scandinavian. !?.Ki
Danidl1 or
Thus we find that Aulaf Cuaran, whose double S
connexion with Conghalach, King of Ireland, has
been already noticed, was also married to Gormflaith,
daughter of Murchadh, son of Finn, King of Leinster,
by whom he had a 1
son, Sitric. Gormflaith then
married Brian Borumha, and by him had a son,
Donnchad, step-brother of Sitric, who was succeeded
by Diarmid, subsequently "King
of the Danes of
Dublin/' 2 and Brian having repudiated Gormflaith,
she married Maelseachlainn, King of Teamhair, by
whom she had a son, Conchobhar, 3 Maelseachlainn
having been previously married to Maelmary,
daughter of AulafCuaran, 4 Gormflaith's first husband. 5
o
Aulaf Cuaran was succeeded by his son Sitric,
and Sitric, mindful of the example of his father
(who had been a pilgrim, at lona), and urged by the
clergy, undertook a pilgrimage to Rome (now
become the frequent practice of Christian kings) in
A.D. 102S. 6
In his absence his son Aulaf was taken
prisoner by Mathghamhain Ua Riagain, but regained
his liberty by payment of a heavy ransom. 7
Aulaf also undertook a pilgrimage, but " was slain
by the Saxons on his way to Rome," A.D. 1034. 8 He
i
Supra, p. 78, and notes 3 and 'Gormflaith died A.D. 1030 (Ann.
7, i1nd. y Ann. 4 Mast., A.D. 1030. 4 Mast.), which supports thestate-
1 Ann. Clonmac., A.D. 1069 ment of the Sagas that Aulaf
(=1072) in Ann. 4 Mast., vol. ii., Cuaran was King of Dublin until
p. 904, n. *. after A.D. 994. Olaf Trygvesson's
3 Wars of the Gncdhil with the Saga, chap. lii.
Gaill. Introd., p. xlviii., n 8 .
4 Aim. Clonmac., A.D. 1014 (recti
1021) in Ann. 4 Mast., vol. ii., p.
n. .
6 Ann. 4 Mast., A.D. 1028.
7 Ibid., A.D. 1029.
*
Ibid., A.D. 1034.