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42 THE VIKING PERIOD
Certain old Norse words and phrases which are to be found
in Irish texts also go to show the familiarity of the Irish
with the Norse language. They may be mentioned here,
although they are not loan-words, but rather attempts
on the part of the Irish authors to reproduce the speech
of the foreigners :
dug.
1
O.N. konungr, or possibly
A.S. cyning.
coming (Three Fragments of
Annals, pp. 126, 194, 228). O.N. konungr,
’
a king.’
"Faras Domnall ?
"
(War of
the Gaedhil with the Gaill ;
p. 174).
"
Hvar es Domhnall ?
"
"
Where is Domhnall ?
"
"Sund a sniding," was the O. Ir. siind,
"
here.
1 ’
reply. O.N. nithingr, ".here,
rascal."
fiut (Book of Leinster, 172,
a, 7). O.N. hvitr,
’
white.’
Infuit, a personal name ;
War of the Gaedhil with
the Gaill, p. 78. O.N. hvitr,
’
white.’
l
The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, p. 203, says that when
the Norsemen were fleeing after the battle of Clontarf, Earl Broder,
accompanied by two warriors, passed by the tent in which King
Brian was. One of these men, who had betn in Brian’s service, saw
the King and cried
"
Cing, Cing
"
(This is the King).
"
No, no, acht
prist, prist
"
said Broder (No, no, it is a priest, said Broder).
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