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34 THE VIKING PERIOD
(O.N. tnarkathr, a
’
market ’), and penning (O.N. penningr,
a
’
penny ’),
and also by certain archaeological discoveries.
In Scandinavia coins of King Sitime Silken- Beard have been
found,
1
while four sets of bronze scales and some weights
richly decorated in enamel and gold have been dug up in
Ireland (Bangor, Co. Down).
2
To the same period (early
ninth century) also belong the scales and weights which were
discovered in the great hoard at Islandbridge, near Kilmain-
ham in 1866. 3
With such strong evidence of the influence
exerted by the Vikings on the expansion of Irish trade it
is not surprising to find that even as late as the seventeenth
century the greater part of the merchants of Dublin traced
their descent to Olaf Cuaran and the Dublin Norsemen. 4
1 A. Bugge : Vesterlandenes Indflydelse paa Nordboernes i Vikinge-
tiden, pp. 300-304.
*G. Coffey, op. cit., p. 91.
*Ib., p. 89.
Duald Mac Firbis : On the Fomorians and the Norsemen (ed.
A. Bugge), p. ii.
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