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Craigie: The Norse-Irish Question.
176
refer exclusively to Northmen and Irish in Ireland, but to
the Irish people as a whole contrasted with the Norse people
(in Norway or Iceland) as a whole; and I still believe my
Statement to be fairly correct. There is therefore no real
ground for Dr Bugge’s criticism, which is as follows:
’’Nothing is more unhistorical than the view of which Mr
Craigie makes himself the spokesman. That two peoples should
for more than two hundred years be able to live side by
side in a country like Ireland, which was separated by the
sea from other lands and formed (so to speak) a world by
itself, seems incredible. In the foregoing I have tried to show
that about the year 1000 there must have been an intimate
connection between Irish and Northmen." I grant the fact,
and have myself insisted on it; but the important question
is: how far did this ’intime förbindelse mellem Irer dg
Nord-boer’ affect the rest of the Scandinavian world? Dr Bugge
continues: "Neither is it the case, as Mr Craigie maintains,
that the old work Cogadh Gaedhel shows little knowledge
of northern affairs. Its author must even, as my father Prof.
S. Bugge tries to show, have drawn from northern sources".
As a matter of fact, I have not maintained this at all. My
words (cited by Dr. Bugge) are these: "If we consider the
tone of works like the "War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill",
it will not Surprise us, that the Irish historians show so
little real acquaintance with the men who were constantly
with them for more than two centuries". It would be
sur-pri8ing, indeed, if the author of a work specially dealing
with the Northmen in Ireland did not know a good deal
about their affairs; but it is the hatred and contempt of the
Gaill which he constantly displays that I had in mind in
expres8ing myself as above. At the same time, Dr. Bugge
perhaps gives too much credit to the statements made in
this work and in the Three Fragments as to matters of which
we have no independent knowledge. What Irish tradition
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