[66] Laxdaela Saga (translated by M.A.C. Press), chs. 12, 13, 20, 21.
[67] The Annals of the Four Masters record his death under the year 941: “Muirchertach of the Leather Cloaks, lord of Aileach, the Hector of the West of Europe in his time, was slain at Ardee by Blacaire, son of Godfrey, lord of the Foreigners.”
Muirchertach’s grandson was killed by Olaf Cuaran. (Ib., A.D. 975).
[68] Ib., A.D. 981.
[69] Ib., A.D. 1021.
[70] War of the Gaedhit with the Gaill, p. 142 ff.; Njáls Saga, chs. 153, 154.
[71] Annals of the Four Masters, A.D. 851.
[72] Three Fragments of Annals, pp. 119, 123. Annals of Ulster, A.D. 852.
[73] Chronicon Scotorum, A.D. 883.
[74] Ib., 886; Annals of Ulster, A.D. 885.