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26 THE VIKING PERIOD
to as Gaill (’ foreigners ’)
must have also included Danes,
as Raghnall’s army was composed of both Danes and
Norsemen ;
a
and moreover, both parties are represented as
fighting side by side against the Irish in Waterford.’
Waterford had not at first a dynasty of its own, but was
dependent on the Dublin Kingdom. Olaf Godfreyson seems
to have been in command there while his father was King
of Dublin ;
3
and we hear also that when the town was
attacked by the Irish under Cellachan of Cashel, Sihtric,
a prince from Dublin, came with a fleet to relieve it.
4
Later
in the same century, the kingdom of Waterford stood quite
distinct, and was governed by Ivarr (d. 1000), who was
probably a member of the Dublin royal family. He came
forward as a claimant to the Dublin throne after the murder
of Gluniarainn, son of Olaf Cuaran (989) but was driven
out after a three years’ reign by Sihtric Silken-Beard.
Ivarr’s successors in Waterford, Amond (O.N. Amundr)
and Goistilin Gall were killed in the battle of Clontarf.
In the tenth and eleventh centuries Waterford_ was
strongly fortified, and, like L,imerick, had gates leading
into the town. 5
The town itself was built in the form of
a triangle with a tower at each angle,
6
only one of which,
the famous Reginald’s Tower, built in 1003, is still standing.
Gualtier (? Ir. Gall tir,
’
land of the foreigners ’),
a barony
lying on the west side of the harbour, is supposed to have
been connected with the
’
Ostmen/ who were obliged to
settle there after the arrival of the English in 1169.
1 Annals of Ulster, A.D. 921.
2 Tk* Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel, p. 71.
3 The Four Masters record
"
the plundering of Kildare by the son
of Gothfrith (i.e., Olaf) from Wateriord
"
(A.D. 926).
*The Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel, p 70.
*The Victorious Career of Celtachan of Cashel, pp. 13, 70.
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