Scandinavian Relations with Ireland During the Viking Period

by A. Walsh

[108] Annals of Ulster, A.D. 921.

[109] The Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel, p. 71.

[110] The Four Masters record “the plundering of Kildare by the son of Gothfrith (i.e., Olaf) from Waterford” (A.D. 926).

[111] The Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel, p. 70.

[112] The Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel, pp. 13, 70.

[113] Smith: History of Waterford, p. 165.

[114] Annals of the Four Masters, A.D. 846, 864.

[115] Ib., 865. Fragments of Annals, p. 169.

Gnimbeolu is the O.N. Grímr Bióla. The Irish “Cinnsiolla” (Nom. Cenn Selach) is probably a translation of O.N. Selshofuth, a word which does not occur as a nickname in Old Norse literature. It was, however, known in Ireland as may be seen from the runic inscription—domnal Selshofoth a soerth (th) eta—on a bronze sword-plate found in Greenmount (Co. Louth). Cf. Marstrander, op. cit. p. 49.

[116] The Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel, pp. 10, 67.