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Old May 24th, 2023 #1
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Default Viking Kings of Dublin.

1) OLAF the WHITE 853 -871
2) IVARR the BONELESS 856 – 873
3) AUDGISH 863 – 867
4) OSTEN 873 – 875
5) HALFDAN 875 – 877
6) BARDR 877 – 881
7) SIGFRID IVARSSON 881 – 888
8) SIGTRYGGR IVARSSON 888 – 893 / 894 – 896
9) SIGFRID JARL 893 -894
10) IVARR 896 – 902
11) SIGTRYGGR 917 – 921
12) GODFREY 921 – 324
13) OLAF 934 - 941
14) SIGTRYGGR 941 – 943
15) BLACAIR 943 – 945
16) OLAF CUARAN 945 – 980
17) GODFREY 948 – 949
18) OLAF 951 – 953
19) GLUNIARAINN 980 -989
20) SIGTRYGGR SILKENBEARD 989 – 1038
21) OLAF SIGTRYGGRSSON 1038 – 1046
22) ECHMARCACH 1046 – 1052
23) GOORED CRAVAN 1066 – 1070
24) GODFREY MERANAGH 1091 – 1094
25) ASCULF MAC TORCALL 1168 - 1170

POSTCARD – VIKING KINGS of DUBLIN


856 to 1170 is 314 years and throughout four centuries. Dublin remained a Norse town into the 1300’s where old Norse was still spoken.


The Danes colonised Ireland, England, Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Western Russia.
 
Old May 24th, 2023 #2
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Default The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin

Dublin and the mainland of Scotland
The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin


Scandinavian Kings were polygamists,, marrying and repudiating without control. And not withstanding their Christianity, some of our Irish Monarchs were tainted by the manners of the age, as even Charlemagne, the anointed champion of the Church, was a bigamist and worse. Certain it is that their matrimonial connections were of a most complicated character. Thus Aedh Finnliath, who had married Maelmurrie . . .


Thus allied to the Kings of Scotland and Ireland, Aulaf also connected himself with the Lord of the Isles. He married Auda, daughter of Ketil Flatneff Chief of the Hebrides; and their son Thorstein the Red, married Thurida, whose Scandinavian father, Eyvind Ausstman was husband of Rafarta, one of Cearbhall’s daughters.


We have already seen that the Picts of Scotland had a common origin with those on the sea coast of Ulster, where the Northmen first settled. While they were thus plundering and settling among the Irish and Irish Picts, they were pursuing the same course with the Scots and Picts of Scotland.


The Northern Picts had been the victims of the early invaders; so had been the Scots, or men of Alba. In A. D. 835, Cinaedh, son of Alpin, King of the Scots, sought assistance from his kindred in Ireland, and Godfraidh, son of Fearghus, Chief of Orghialla (Ulster), went to Alba to strengthen the Dalriada, and thence, perhaps, at the request of Cinaedh, son of Alpin, became Chief of the Hebrides also.


In A. D.839 the Southern Picts were invaded and in “a battle by the Gentiles against the Men of Forten, Eogannen M’CEngus ( King of the Picts ) and his brother Bran, were also slain with a multidude of others, this being possibly the expedition mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus, in which Regnar Logbrog slew the Chiefs of Scotia, Pictavia and the Western Isles.


It might be suggested that ”when all the foreign tribes of Ireland” had submitted to Aulaf he may have desired to extend his dominion over the Picts of Scotland also. Certain it is that he proceeded to subdue them in A. D. 865; for in that year according to the Annalists of Ulster, “Amlaiv and his nobility went to Fortren together with the foreigners of Ireland and Scotland, and spoiled the Cruithne (the Picts), and brought all their hostages with them.”


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 Constantine, King of the Scots, Ivar returned to Dublin where he died in A. D.872.


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 Albanenses, in A. D. 875.


But though the Kings of Dublin ceased to have a dominion in Scotland, their connection with it continued 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, in A. D. 904.


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 more frequent, but not less irregular.




Direct from the Book: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin by Charles Haliday published Dublin 1881. Pages 120 - 122

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Old May 25th, 2023 #3
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Christian takeover - Yiolner or Odin-tide made Christmas



The Venerable Bede has preserved a letter from Pope Gregory to the Abbot Mellitus, directing him to tell St. Augustin in England that he (the Pope) had on mature deliberation determined “that the temple of the idols in that nation ought not to be destroyed but let the idols that are in them be destroyed; let holy water be made and sprinkled in the said temples, let altars be erected and relics placed,” ”That the nation seeing that their temples are not destroyed may more familiarly resort to the places to which they have been accustomed. And because they have been used to slaughter oxen in sacrifices to devils, some solemnity must be exchanged for them on this account, as that on the day of the dedication or the nativities of the holy martyrs, whose relics are there deposited, they may build themselves huts of the boughs of trees about those churches which have been turned to that use from temples, and celebrate the solemnity with religious feasting, and no more offer beasts to the devil, but kill cattle to the praise of God in their eating, and return thanks, &c., &c.”


Almost universally the Christian missionaries everywhere pursued this course. At Upsala in A.D. 1026 the great temple of Odin was converted into a Christian Church, and in Scandinavian settlements, where no enclosed temple existed, churches were dedicated to St. Michael, St. Magnus, to St. Olave, or to the Virgin Mary, at the places previously consecrated to the worship of Thor and Freyja, other pagan memorials or monuments being sanctified with Christian emblems. Hence we frequently find the pillar stones or bowing stones either marked with a cross, or overthrown and stone crosses raised where they stood, and the sacred wells of Baldur, the son of Odin, with the sacred wells of other heathen deities, becoming the holy wells of St. John or St. Patrick. With similar views the great Saxon and Scandinavian festivals were exchanged for Christian festivals occurring at the same time of year, the slaughter of oxen to idols, and the feast which followed, being exchanged for innocent banquets and revelry. Nevertheless the pagan practices which Gregory endeavoured to turn to Christian purposes were not wholly eradicated. The Christian converts still knelt at the holy wells and went southwards round them, following the course of the sun, and yet continue to do so in many parts of Ireland, where they still place bits of rags as votive offerings on the sacred ashtree or hawthorn which overhang these wells. They continued and still continue to light their May fires and to pass through or over them. They continue to place boughs of everygreen trees in their places of worship at Christmas, and in some instances, they even continued to the Christian commemoration the pagan name. The great feast of Yiolner or Odin (Yiolner or Odin-tide made Christmas) was superseded by the Christmas festival, yet to this hour there are many parts of England and Scotland, as well as Denmark and Norway; where Christmas is termed Yioletide. The Paschal festival of other countries is with us called after the goddess Easter, whose festival was coincident, and the days of the week dedicated to Woden or Odin, to Thor and to Freyja, retain their names nearly unchanged in Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.




Copied from the Book: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin by Charles Haliday published Dublin 1881. Pages 171 – 174.
21 II 2021.


Christmas is still know as Yuletide.
 
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