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Madoc to attack Chester again (if this is not the same
story twice told).
In 961 the sons of Olaf Cuaran of Dublin (or Olaf’s
son and the Lagmen of the Islands) are said to have
landed in Anglesey and burnt Holyhead. In 966
another attack is recorded, and in 969 Mactus (Magnus)
Haraldsson, of the Isle of Man, entered Anglesey
and spoiled Penmon, but was driven out in 970. In
979 a Welsh faction hired Danes under Godfrid, son of
Harald, king of Man, to invade Anglesey, and in 986
Godfrid came again, took Llywarch ap Owain prisoner
with 2,000 men, and put Meredith ap Owain to flight.
In 991 the Danes once more overran the island. In
993 Svein Forkbeard landed in North Wales from the
Isle of Man. Then we come, as before, to the period
when race counted for little, and the Vikings were
used as tools of faction. Conan, son of Iago ap
Idwal, in 1041 taking refuge in Ireland and marrying
the daughter of the king of Dublin, returned to North
Wales and captured prince Gruffydd. In 1056
Roderic, son of Harald, "king of Denmark," came to
Wales, joined Gruffydd and invaded England; in 1073
Gruffydd, son of Conan, got help in Ireland from the
king of Ulster and "Ranallt" and other kings to
invade Anglesey, as he did again in 1079. At last
came Magnus of Norway in 1096 and 1100, to whom
Anglesey was the southernmost goal in his career of
belated and fruitless viking. (See Caradoc, 961-1100.)
The story of these repeated incursions leads one to
expect some permanent colonisation in North Wales.
The Viking character is expressed, in spite of the
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