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The Vikings may have first over-wintered in 840–841 AD. The actual location of the longphort of Dublin is still a hotly debated issue. Norse rulers of Dublin were often co-kings, and occasionally also Kings of Jórvík in what is now Yorkshire. Under their rule, Dublin became the biggest slave port in Western Europe.
Olaf succeeded his father as King of Dublin in 934 and succeeded in establishing dominance over the Vikings of Limerick when he captured their king, Amlaíb Cenncairech, in 937. That same year he allied with Constantine II of Scotland in an attempt to reclaim the Kingdom of Northumbria which his father had ruled briefly in 927.
In 902, Cerball mac Muirecáin, king of Leinster, and Máel Findia mac Flannacáin, king of Brega, launched a two-pronged attack on Dublin and drove the Vikings from the city. However, in 914 the Vikings now known as the Uí Ímair (House of Ivar) would return to Ireland, marking the beginning of the Second Viking Age.
Ímar and Amlaíb were joined in Ireland by another brother, Auisle, sometime before 863. From this date onwards the three brothers are described as "kings of the foreigners" by the annals, but in modern texts they are usually labelled as kings of Dublin, after the Viking settlement which was the base of their power. [22]
An excerpt from folio 29r of Oxford Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson B 489 (the Annals of Ulster).The excerpt concerns Sitriuc Cáech.. Sitric Cáech or Sihtric Cáech or Sigtrygg Gále, [nb 1] (Old Norse: Sigtryggr [ˈsiɣˌtryɡːz̠], Old English: Sihtric, died 927) was a Hiberno-Scandinavian Viking [nb 2] leader who ruled Dublin and then Viking Northumbria in the early 10th century.
Sigtrygg II Silkbeard Olafsson (also Sihtric, Sitric [1] and Sitrick in Irish texts; or Sigtryg [2] and Sigtryggr [3] in Scandinavian texts) was a Hiberno-Norse king of Dublin (possibly AD 989–994; restored or began 995–1000; restored 1000 and abdicated 1036) of the Uí Ímair dynasty.
In 902 the kingdoms of Brega and Leinster formed an alliance and drove the Vikings from Dublin. [3] The exiled Dubliners, led by Ímar ua Ímair, retreated to territory in Scotland over which they exerted some control. [2] The following year they were engaged in warfare with Constantine, King of the Picts, raiding Dunkeld.
Viking Age Dublin. Óttar of Dublin (or Óttarr of Dublin), in Irish Oitir Mac mic Oitir (Oitir the son of a son of Oitir), was a Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, reigning in 1142–1148. Alternative names used in modern scholarship include Óttar of the Isles and Óttar Óttarsson.