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Pembroke was never, like the Cumbrian colony,
extended far inland. Its operations appear to cover
the country surrounding the great fjord which give
a haven to Viking ships. Many of the place-names
which have tempted etymologists to doubtful
conclusions must have resulted from the English
settlement under the Norman rule. The Northmen
seem to have occupied only the central and southern
part of the country, and to have used the place as a
factory or emporium–a stronghold for piracy and a
centre of slave traffic–where the worse traditions of
the Viking Age survived; not making it, as in other
parts of Britain, an area of peaceful colonisation and
steady domestic progress.
Much the same story must be told of North Wales.
We have noticed the invasion of Orm in 855, and the
history of the coast from Anglesey to Chester is one
tale of repeated attacks rather than permanent
settlement. In 873, according to Caradoc of
Llancarvan, Danes landed in Anglesey, and were
driven off in two battles by Roderic; in 878
Roderic’s death was revenged by the battle of
Cymrhyd, near Conway. Then followed more Danish
attacks on the north Welsh coast, until, in 900, Igmund
or Ingimund from Dublin with his Norse landed at
Holyhead and fought their way to Chester, after which
they found homes in Wirral. Then, in 909, the Danes
from Dublin, who had driven out these Norse, followed
them, and besieged Chester, lately fortified by the English.
About 920, as Caradoc and William of Malmesbury
say, Leofred from Dublin joined Gruffydd ap
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