[160] Ib., p. 137.
[161] See A. Bugge: Norse Loan-words in Irish (Miscellany Presented to Kuno Meyer, p. 291 ff.).
W. A. Craigie: Oldnordiske Ord i de Gaeliske Sprog (Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi, X., 1894).
C. Marstrander: Bidrag til det Norske Sprogs Historie i Irland.
K. Meyer: Revue Celtique, X., pp. 367-9, XI., pp. 493-5, XII., pp. 460-3.
[162] Marstrander (op. cit., p. 21) suggests that the word is connected with the O.N. dialectal form berling, “a little stick or beam under the shallows in a boat.”
[163] Cf. the list of authorities referred to ante, pp. 38, 39.
[164] The Norsemen sometimes adopted Irish fashions in their dress. The great Viking Magnus, who was killed in Ireland in A.D. 1103, was usually called “barelegs” (O.N. berfaettr) because he always wore the Irish kilts; and his son, Harold Gilli, who could speak Irish better than Norse, “much wore the Irish raiment, being short-clad and light-clad.” It was probably from his Irish cuaran, or shoes of skin that Olaf Sihtricsson, the famous King of Dublin received his nickname.
[165] In the Annals of the Four Masters (A.D. 960), lagmainn is the name given to certain chieftains from the Hebrides who plundered the southern and eastern coasts of Ireland.
[166] The word occurs only once in Irish: cf. The Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel, p. 140.