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SCANDINAVIAN* ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 149
St. Stephen, having been built on another part of
the Stein, between Stephen' s-street and Stephen's-
green.
The point of the Stein, however, long continued e
g t^
to be used for landing and embarking passengers,
and for purposes of trade, the Memoranda Rolls of
Henry IV. mentioning, " the Stayne and Dodyr,"
with " the key of Dublin," as places from whence
merchandise was exported.
But the Northmen had a peculiar object in select-
ing their landing place.
Their ships were long and
shallow, lightly built, and for the greater part with-
out decks. These they ran ashore, when about to
land, and in winter drew them up the beach, there
to remain until summer enabled them " to keep the
sea," The bank of a river, a flat sandy strand, such
as the north side of Stein presented, was, conse-
quently, best adapted for their purposes,
and at all
times was preferred to a deep-water anchorage. 1
On the west side of this landing place was a creek, The river and
the mouth of a little river which there entered the steyne.
Liffey. This was the river of the' Stein, and on it
was built the mill of the Priory of All Hallows. The
mill was of early date as we have on record a grant
made to the Prior in 1298 of " four large oaks from
1
It is to this landing place that They there left their
ships to
the old Norrnan French poem ''The combat Milo de Cogan who had
Conquest of Ireland" refers, when treacherously taken the City dur-
reluting that Hasculf Mac Torkil ing a truce. Anglo-Norman poem
having returned to Dublin with on the Conquest of Ireland by
his " Berseiker," or furious chain- Henry II. Edited by Francisque
pion (called in the Ulster Annals Michel, p. 108, I2mo, London,
44 John of the Orkney's) : 1837.
14 A Stein erent arive
Hescul et Johau le Deve."
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