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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 99
A.D. 870, when Ingolf and Lief landed, and found
that some Irish Christians called "Papae/^had left
behind them " Irish books, bells, and croziers."
Ingolf returned to Norway to prepare for the
intended settlement, and Lief sailed on a Viking
cruise to Ireland, where, in pursuit of plunder, he
entered a dark cave or underground retreat, and
there discovered one of the natives by the glittering
of his sword ; killing the sword-bearer, and seizing
the bright weapon, he thence obtained the name of
Hior Lief, or Lief of the Sword. 2
BOOK IL
CHAP. III.
Ingolf and Lief did not meet again until A.D. 874, Lief brings teu
1
Irish captives
when Lief brought to Iceland ten Irish captives, 3 to to Iceland, A.D.
874.
whom he owed his safety during the voyage, as the
stock of fresh water in the ship being exhausted they
another pirate. Crymogcea, Am.
Jonas, Hamburgi, 1614, p.
Specimen
20.
Islandiae, Amstelodami,
1643, p. 4. Heimskringla, Havniae,
1 777. Harald's Saga, vol. i., p. 96,
says that in the discontent at
Harald's seizing the land of Nor-
way (after the battle of Hafursfiord) great numbers fled from their
country, and the out-countries of
Iceland and the Foeroe islands were
discovered and peopled. This refers
to later colonization, as, according
to Schoning's chronology, Harald
began to reign in 863, and the
battle of Hafursfiord was in 885.
1 Landnamab., p. 2 ; Cryinogaea,
p. 21. Every bishop was styled
papa, or father, and the books,
bells, and croziers belonged to some
of this order, this island, lying to
the east of Iceland, being called
after its Irish Christian in-
Pap-cy
habitants. Irish missionaries or
anchorites had given their names to
many of the islands, as Papa
Stronsa, or Papa Westra.
2 Landnamabok, p. 13. ''The
plundering of the
"
caves by the
Norsemen is mentioned by the Four
Masters in A.D. 861, and Ann. Ult.,
862, out of their navy ; but these
appear to have been subterranean
chambers, such as those under the
Tumulus at New Grange and else-
where. Liefs adventure some
years later may have been in some
of these chambers, of which there
are many still in Ireland.
8 [Multis in Hiberniae locis pira-
ticam exercuit et niagnam praedam
reportavit ; ibi decem servos cepit
quorum nomina stint Dufthakus.
Grirrandus, Skiardbiorn, Hallthor,
Drafdritus ; caeterorum nomina ad
nos non pervenerunt.] Landna-
mab., p. 13.
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