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142 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
BOOK ii.
CHAP. VI.
concurrent with that of the civil ruler is confirmed by
finding that all grants of land made by the Ostmen
and subsequently by the Anglo-Normans, of land
"which was of the Ostmen," were within the diocese ;
nor do we find any possessions of the Ostmen outside
its boundary.
The residence which Aulaf had at Clondalkin in
A.D. 866, and Sitric's town and lands of Baldoyle,
Portrane, and Ratheny, in 1038, were all within it.
So was the territory ''
from Ath Cliath to Ath
Truisten, 1
which Donnchad, king of Ireland, and
Muircheartach spoiled and plundered, A.D. 936, as
being " all under the dominion of the foreigners of
Ath Cliath." So, likewise, was Swords, Luske, and
all the country of Fingal, 2 which we find in the pos-
session of the Northmen, in A.D. 1035 ; and in 1135,
devastated by the king of Meath, to revenge his
brother, " killed by Donnough Mac Gill mo cholmoc,
and the Danes of Dublin." 3
1 " i.e. from Dublin to Ath Mael na mbo, and they
Truisten, a ford of the river country
burned the
from Ath Cliath to Al-
Griece, near the hill of Mullagh- bene. Reeves' Life of St. Columba,
mast, in the south of the county of p. 108, fixes the Delvin Rivulet
Kildare." Ann. Four Masters, (Irish Albene) as the boundaiy of
Vol. II., p. 635, n. Fingal.
2 A.D. 1052, a predatory excur- Ann. Clomac A.U. 1135.
sion into Finn Gall, by the son of
END OF BOOK SECOND.