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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 121
this being possibly the expedition men-
ticned by Saxo Grammaticus, in which Regnar
Lodbrog slew the Chiefs of Scotia, Pictavia, and the
Western Isles. 2
BOOK "
L II A P V.
It might be suggested that when " all the foreign Auiaf invade*
tribes of Ireland " had submitted to Aulaf, 3 he may Scotland, *A.U.
have desired to extend his dominion over the Picts
of Scotland also. Certain it is that he proceeded to
subdue them in A.D. 8G5 ;
for in that year according to
the Annalists of Ulster, "Amlaiv and his nobility
went to Fortran together with the foreigners of
Ireland and Scotland, and spoiled the Cruithne (the
Picts), and brought all their hostages with them." 4
In A.D. 869, Aulaf in conjunction with Ivar, again
invaded Pictland, and after a siege of four months
took and destroyed its capital ;
but Aulaf being slain
while leading an army against Constantino, King of 11
Jjjl*
the Scots, Ivar returned to Dublin, where he died, iw die t
A.D. 872. 5
The sons of Aulaf, however, did not abandon the
conquests of their father. Oslin remained in Pictland,
where he was slain by a stratagem of the
in A.D. 875. 6
Albanenses,
But though the Kings of Dublin ceased to have a
1
Bellum a geutilibus
contrii ix., p. 154, line 33.
viros Fortrenn in quo ceciderunt
5
Supra, p. 19.
Eoganam MacCEngusa et Bran 4 Annals of Ulster, cited in the
MacCEngus, et Aedh MacBoanta foot note of J. O'Donovan, LL.D.,
et alii pene innumerabiles ceci- in the Annals of the Four Masters,
derunt. Ann. Ulton. Sec Reeves's vol. i., p. 502.
Adamnan, p. 390. (Wars of the
Gaedhel with the GailL Pref. p.
*
*
Supra, pp. 38-40.
Annals of Four Master*, A.D.
li., n . 1.) 874. Ibid, A.D. 865, p. 519. Cit-
* Saxo Grammaticus Hist. Lil>. ing Anna! Ulton.
8 '
Dublin, A.D.
872.