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38 THE VISING PERIOD
Shannon to Lough Ree 1
and again in 1001 sailed with his
fleet to Athlone.* But the greatest triumph of all was in
1005, when Brian, then at the height of his power,
"
sent
forth a naval expedition composed of the foreigners of
Dublin and Waterford and the Ui Ceinnselaigh (i.e., the
men of Wexford) and almost all the men of Erin, such of
them as were fit to go to sea ; and they levied royal tribute
from the Saxons and the Britons and from the men of
Ivennox in Scotland and the inhabitants of Argyle."
8
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the names of a number
of Frisian sailors who fought with the English in a naval
battle against the Vikings (A. an. 897). In the same way the
Irish ships must have been manned to a large extent by Norse
mercenaries or by the Gaill-Gaedhil, for practically all the
shipping terms introduced into Irish in the tenth and
eleventh centuries are of Norse origin.
4
This is evident
from the following list :
Mid. Ir. abor, abur : O.N. hdbora,
’
an oar hole.’
Accaire : O.N. akkeri,
’
an anchor.’
Accarsoid : O.N. akkerissaeti, ’a harbour for
ships.’
Achtuaim : O.N. aktaumr,
’
a brace.’
athbha ; phonetic form (af, av) of O.N.
hoftith,
’
head
’
of a ship.
1
War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, p. 109.
*Ib., p. 133.
8
Ib., p. 137.
* See A. Bugge : Norse Loan-words in Irish (Miscellany Presented
to Kuno Meyer, p. 291 ft".).
W. A. Craigie : Oldnordiske Oyd i de GaeUshe Sprog (Arkiv for
Nordisk Filologi, X., 1894).
C. Marstrander :
Bidrag til del Norske Sprogs Plistnrie i Irland.
K. Meyer : Revue Celtique, X., pp. 367-9.
XI., pp. 493-5-
,, ,, XII., pp. ^60-3.
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