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the chief abbey of central Ireland, his wife Otta,
where she sat on the altar of the church and "gave
answers" in the character of a priestess or prophetess.
At last he was captured by King Maelseachlann, and
drowned in Lough Owel (co. Westmeath), in or about
843. A variant of the tale is given by Giraldus, and
may perhaps have been known to Snorri, to the effect
that he fell in love with a daughter of King Maelseachlann,
and that she was sent to him with a company
of fifteen young men dressed as girls, who stabbed
him and his chiefs to death.
Thorgest may have been a Norwegian, for we
get definite notice in the Irish Annals of the
difference between Norse and Danes at the period
of his arrival (see pp. 59, 60). But by the time of
Thorgest’s death Limerick had been founded as a
Viking settlement, and Dublin (840) on a site captured
in 836 ; while the colony in Wicklow (Wikinglaw)
was established at least as early as 835. About this
time we have the first distinct notices of attempts to
occupy southern and central Scotland, the hold of the
Northmen on the Orkneys and Shetland being already
secured. When Æthelwulf, the son of Ecgberht, came
to the throne of Wessex, the aspect of affairs had
altered from occasional predatory raids to determined
invasion.
About 840 these new invasions began on the south
coast of England ; the first, repulsed from Southampton ;
the next at Portland, in which the Danes beat the
Saxons by means of their trick of the feigned flight ;
the third, a successful raid upon Lindsey, East Anglia
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