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946 we find him plundering Gill Cuilinn, and next year
attacking Dublin, where in 948 Guthfrith Sigtryggson
was reigning, that is to say, Olaf Cuaran’s brother.
In 949 Olaf returned to York, where he reigned until
952. Next year he was plundering near Donard, in
co. Wicklow, and sacking Inisdowill. In 956 Olaf
Guthfrithsson the younger, lord of the Gaill at Dublin,
won a great battle over the Irish ; perhaps this was a
nephew of Olaf Cuaran acting as his general. In 961
Olaf, King of Dublin (Cuaran?) was attacked by
Sigtrygg Cam, a Viking from overseas, and being
wounded in the thigh with an arrow, escaped with
loss. In 964 Olaf (Cuaran) Sigtryggsson was defeated
in Kilkenny, but in 970 he plundered Kells, and in
977 slew the two heirs (tanists) of Ireland, Muircheartach
and Conghalach. The great battle of Tara, 979,
in which King Maelseachlann defeated him and
killed his son Ragnvald, broke his power; next year
he retired to lona, where he died in 981. By his
second wife, Gormflaith, he had a son, Sigtrygg Silkiskeggi
(Silk-beard), who became king of Dublin ;
other sons were Gluniarainn (Járn-kné) and Harald.
Duald mac Firbis says that in his time, the seventeenth
century, most of the Dublin merchants traced their
pedigree to Olaf Cuaran. His name, Amhlaeibh in
Irish, became Abloic in Welsh (the language of
Strathclyde), whence the legends of Havelock Cuheran
the Dane, and according to Professor I. Gollancz
(Hamlet in Iceland, Introduction), the traditions about
him and his family became the groundwork of the
tale of Hamlet, prince of Denmark.
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