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The Battle of Clontarf (Irish: Cath Chluain Tarbh) took place on 23 April 1014 at Clontarf, near Dublin, on the east coast of Ireland.It pitted an army led by Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, against a Norse-Irish alliance comprising the forces of Sigtrygg Silkbeard, King of Dublin; Máel Mórda mac Murchada, King of Leinster; and a Viking army from abroad led by Sigurd of Orkney and Brodir ...
Bróðir and Óspak of Man were two Danish or Norwegian brothers who were active in the Isle of Man and Ireland in the 11th century. They are mentioned in the 12th century Irish Cogadh Gaedhil re Gallaibh and the 13th century Icelandic Njal's Saga as the key leaders who fought on opposite sides in the Battle of Clontarf, in 1014.
Fultonhistory.com (also known as Old Fulton New York Postcards) is an archival historic newspaper website of over 1,000 New York newspapers, along with collections from other states and Canada. As of February 2018, the website had almost 50 million scanned newspaper pages.
Sigurd Hlodvirsson (c. 960 – 23 April 1014), popularly known as Sigurd the Stout from the Old Norse Sigurðr digri, [2] was an Earl of Orkney.The main sources for his life are the Norse Sagas, which were first written down some two centuries or more after his death.
Sigtrygg was of Norse and Irish ancestry. [2] He was a son of Olaf Cuarán (also called Kváran), King of York and of Dublin, and Gormlaith ingen Murchada. [3] Gormlaith was the daughter of the King of Leinster, Murchad mac Finn, [5] and the sister of his successor, King Máel Mórda of Leinster. [3]
Gormlaith was born in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland.Her father was Murchad mac Finn, King of Leinster, and her brother was Máel Mórda mac Murchada.According to annalistic accounts, she was married to Olaf Cuaran, the Viking king of Dublin and York until his death in 981, [1] and was mother to his son, King Sigtrygg Silkbeard.