![]() ¶ Máel Mórda assembled a coalition army with a significant Hiberno-Norse component, most notably Sitrick Silkbear, Viking king of Dublin. Brian’s principal antagonist at Clontarf was Máel Mórda mac Murchada, the native Irish king of Leinster (Ireland’s eastern province). ![]() During his career, Brian made significant gains over other native-Irish dynasties, such as the Northen Uí Néill dynasty, based in Ulster (Ireland’s northern province). Across subsequent centuries, this understanding of Clontarf rendered it a symbol of Ireland’s ability to overcome enemies. ¶ A simple narrative of Irish history claims that Brian Boru - king of the Dál gCais, a southern Irish dynasty - lost his life while breaking Viking power in Ireland at the Battle of Clontarf, a large-scale engagement, fought near Dublin on Good Friday 1014. Artifacts retrieved during an archaeological excavation, conducted there between 20, reveal evidence of an extensive Viking trading network that embraced the Baltic and the Near East. ¶ In the early twenty-first century, another Viking longphort was discovered at Woodstown, around 5.5 miles up the Suir from Waterford City. Its Viking Triangle district features the Reginald’s Tower Viking Museum, plus King of the Vikings, a virtual-reality experience presented in a replica Viking house. Like Wexford, it was originally a Viking longphort. ¶ Around 50 minutes to the west is the city of Waterford, on the River Suir (pronounced “sure”). ¶ How to experience Viking Ireland when based at GS’s Wexford Campus? Under three miles away is the Irish National Heritage Park, one of whose immersive components is a full-scale reproduction of a Viking homestead settlement. Some historians claim that the twelfth-century abbey replaced a Viking temple, dedicated to Odin. Very close to GS’s Wexford Town campus is the ruin of Selskar Abbey, whose name is of Viking origin. ¶ A common Gaeilge (Irish-language) noun, bád - which means “boat” - derives from the Norwegian language of the Viking era. Some historians employ the compound term “Hiberno-Norse” to indicate communities of Viking origin whose long-term residence in Ireland (also known as Hibernia) caused them to absorb Irish cultural and environmental influences. ![]() ¶ The terms “Norse” and “Oatsmen” are often applied to the Vikings in Ireland, regardless of their precise origin (Norway or Denmark). ¶ Located where the River Slaney (“health”) forms its estuary, Wexford Town was originally a Viking longphort or ship-camp named Waesfjord (“bay of the mudflats”). ¶ In time, the Vikings established year-round settlements at strategic, defensible Irish harbors, including Dublin, Waterford, and Wexford. Ibar’s monastery on Begerin Island, near present-day Wexford Town. One example of a raid is the 819 attack on St. ¶ The raiding configured as two great phases: from the late 700s through the mid-800s and after 914. The raiders also sought captives for enslavement. ¶ Norwegian and (to a lesser degree) Danish Vikings first engaged with Ireland by conducting hit-and-run raids, mainly targeted at monasteries, which often possessed considerable material wealth, derived from agricultural productivity. Vikings (Norse) \ Multicultural Medieval Ireland It also conveys how pre-modern legacies continue to affect Irish culture. Overall, the unit posits Ireland as historically multicultural. The module’s second unit summarizes important dimensions of the Normans’ impact upon Ireland, especially its Southeast region. Beginning in 1169, both they and the native Irish faced a major incursion from Cambro-Norman (or Welsh-Norman) lords. By the mid-twelfth century, their descendants living in Ireland had Christianized. The Vikings who first attacked Ireland worshipped their own gods (such as Thor). Like Dublin, Wexford Town has Norwegian-Viking roots the name Wexford is a way of rendering a Norwegian phrase translatable as “bay of the mudflats.” The first of this module’s two units rehearses key data about the Vikings (or Norse) in Ireland. Originally, it referred to a settlement of Vikings, invaders from Scandinavia. The name derives from the Gaeilge (or Irish-language) words fine and gall, meaning “tribe” and “foreigners,” respectively. Arriving at Dublin Airport, one finds oneself in the northern district of Dublin called Fingal.
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