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Vikingerne, i., p. 178) together with Aedh, son of Echu,
another Hebridean king, and Eirík, king of the
Islands, whom Prof. Bugge identifies with Eirík
Blódöx, lately expelled from York and shortly to be
killed at Stainmoor ; which fixes the date at about
953. We seem to see the Islands under Gallgael
rulers, some of whom had relations with Limerick ;
but no settled dynasty was in occupation.
To this period may perhaps be assigned the story
told in Landnáma and the older version of Droplaugarsona
saga, of a jarl Asbjörn Skerjablesi (Skerryblaze)
"who ruled in the Hebrides after Tryggvi (a
form of Sigtrygg) and before Guthorm." He was
attacked by the vikings Hólmfast Vethorm’s son and
his kinsman Grím, descended from Ketil Raum (of
Romsdal), who slew him and carried his wife and
daughter into captivity. If the dating of the story
may be attempted, the event must have happened
about 940, though the absence of detail makes it
impossible to guess whereabouts was the jarldom of
these three rulers.
In 961 the fleet of Olaf Cuaran’s son and the Lagmenn
of the Islands (Isle of Man ?) plundered Cork
and carried their prey to Britain and to Mon-Conain
(Anglesey) ; and these Lagmenn reappear with Magnus
(Maccus), son of Harald, in 974, as attacking the
south of Ireland. The English chronicles relate
that Magnus Haraldsson was one of the kings who
yielded submission to Eadgar, and he was probably
son of Harald Sigtryggsson O’lvar, lord of Limerick,
who was killed in Connaught in 940; suggesting a
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