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BOOK ii.
CHAP. V.
122 THE SCAN DtN AVIANS, AND
dominion in Scotland, their connexion with it con-
tinued throughout the tenth century. Nor is it
impossible that when the foreigners were driven out
of Dublin, in A.D. 901,' Ivar, the grandson of Ivar,
attempted to reconquer Pictland ; but was killed by
the men of Fortrenn with a great slaughter about
him,
BOOK ii. Qr
in A.D. 904. 2
About this period it is somewhat difficult to decide
whether the Kings of Dublin should be termed
Ostmen or Irish. After their conversion to Christianity,
intermarriages with the Irish became much
more frequent, but not less irregular.
CHAPTER VI.
RELIGION OF THE OSTMEN or IRELAND.
Few details in Irish Annais concerning the form of Paganism of the Ostmen
of Ireland. Date of their conversion to Christianity. The
conversion of King Aulaf Cuaran in England.- -The first Ostman
bishop of Dublin consecrated there. King Aulaf Cuaran's conversion
in England decides the religion of many of his subjects in Ireland.
The rest remain worshippers of Thor__Proofs of this worship in Irish
Annals. Whether the prefix Gille be Scandinavian or Irish discussed.
Deductions drawn from its use in Scandinavian and Irish names.
The division of Ireland into four provinces, not Scandinavian, but
of ecclesiastical origin The Dyffliuarskiri or Scandinavian territory
around Dublin. Its bounds co-extensive with the early Admiralty
jurisdiction of the Mayor and citizens of Dublin.
form of paganism professed by the Ostmen
of Ireland, nd, Irish annals furnish no direct evidence.
They do not even inform us of the religious tenets of
1
Supra, p.
49. Annals of
Ulster. This date in the Annals
of the Four Masters, in A.D. 897.
* AnnaL Ulton. O'Connor's
Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptures,
vol. iv., p. 243.