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Gofraid of Lochlann, the Glossary

Gofraid, King of Lochlann was a key figure in the emergence of Norse influence in Scotland and one of the early Kings of the Isles and of that dominated the Irish Sea and environs in the Early Middle Ages.^[1]

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870s deaths
9th century in Scotland
9th-century rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles
Rulers of Lochlann
Uí Ímair

Adam of Bremen

Adam of Bremen (Adamus Bremensis; Adam von Bremen; before 1050 – 12 October 1081/1085) was a German medieval chronicler.

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Amlaíb Conung

Amlaíb Conung (Óláfr; died c. 874) was a Viking leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century. Gofraid of Lochlann and Amlaíb Conung are 870s deaths, 9th century in Scotland, 9th-century births, 9th-century rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles, rulers of Lochlann and Uí Ímair.

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Amlaíb Cuarán

Amlaíb mac Sitric (d. 980; Óláfr Sigtryggsson), commonly called Amlaíb Cuarán (O.N.: Óláfr kváran), was a 10th-century Norse-Gael who was King of Northumbria and Dublin. Gofraid of Lochlann and Amlaíb Cuarán are Uí Ímair.

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Annals of Ulster

The Annals of Ulster (Annála Uladh) are annals of medieval Ireland.

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Argyll

Argyll (archaically Argyle; Earra-Ghàidheal), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.

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Aud the Deep-Minded (Ketilsdóttir)

Aud the Deep-Minded (Old Norse: Auðr djúpúðga Ketilsdóttir; Modern Icelandic: Auður djúpúðga Ketilsdóttir; Norwegian: Aud den djuptenkte), also known as Unn, Aud Ketilsdatter or Unnur Ketilsdottir, was a 9th-century settler during the age of Settlement of Iceland.

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Auisle

Auisle or Óisle (Ásl or Auðgísl; died c. 867) was a Viking leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century. Gofraid of Lochlann and Auisle are rulers of Lochlann.

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Ériu (journal)

Ériu is an academic journal of Irish language studies.

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Ímar

Ímar (Ívarr; died c. 873), synonymous with Ivar the Boneless, was a powerful Viking leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century. Gofraid of Lochlann and Ímar are 870s deaths, 9th century in Scotland, 9th-century rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles, rulers of Lochlann and Uí Ímair.

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Causantín mac Cináeda

Causantín mac Cináeda (Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Choinnich; died 877) was a king of the Picts.

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Clan Donald

Clan Donald, also known as Clan MacDonald (Clann Dòmhnaill; Mac Dòmhnaill), is a Highland Scottish clan and one of the largest Scottish clans.

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Clann Somhairle

Clann Somhairle, sometimes anglicised as Clan Sorley, refers to those Scottish and Irish dynasties descending from the famous Norse-Gaelic leader Somerled, King of Mann and the Isles, son of Gillabrigte (†1164), and ancestor of Clann Domhnaill. Gofraid of Lochlann and Clann Somhairle are Uí Ímair.

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Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib

Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib ("The War of the Irish with the Foreigners") is a medieval Irish text that tells of the depredations of the Vikings and Uí Ímair dynasty in Ireland and the Irish king Brian Boru's great war against them, beginning with the Battle of Sulcoit in 967 and culminating in the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in which Brian was slain but his forces were victorious. Gofraid of Lochlann and Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib are Uí Ímair.

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Crovan dynasty

The Crovan dynasty, from the late 11th century to the mid 13th century, was the ruling family of an insular kingdom known variously in secondary sources as the Kingdom of Mann, the Kingdom of the Isles, and the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles. Gofraid of Lochlann and Crovan dynasty are Uí Ímair.

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Donnchadh Ó Corráin

Donnchadh Ó Corráin (28 February 1942 – 25 October 2017) was an Irish historian and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork.

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Dumbarton Castle

Dumbarton Castle (Dùn Breatainn) has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Scotland.

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Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century.

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Fragmentary Annals of Ireland

The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland or Three Fragments are a Middle Irish combination of chronicles from various Irish annals and narrative history.

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Franks

Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.

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Gudrød the Hunter

Gudrød the Hunter (Old Norse: Guðrøðr veiðikonungr, Norwegian: Gudrød Veidekonge, literally Gudrod Hunter-king; died 820 AD), also known as Gudrød the Magnificent (Old Norse: enn gǫfugláti, Norwegian: den gjeve), is a legendary character portrayed in the Norse sagas as a Norwegian petty king in the early 9th century.

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Halfdan Ragnarsson (Hálfdan; Halfdene or Healfdene; Albann; died 877) was a Viking leader and a commander of the Great Heathen Army which invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England, starting in 865.

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History of the Isle of Man

The Isle of Man had become physically separated from Great Britain and Ireland by 6500 BC.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea is a body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.

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Ivar the Boneless

Ivar the Boneless (Ívarr hinn Beinlausi; died c. 873), also known as Ivar Ragnarsson, was a Viking leader who invaded England and Ireland. Gofraid of Lochlann and Ivar the Boneless are Uí Ímair.

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John O'Donovan (scholar)

John O'Donovan (Seán Ó Donnabháin; 25 July 1806 – 10 December 1861), from Atateemore, in the parish of Kilcolumb, County Kilkenny, and educated at Hunt's Academy, Waterford, was an Irish language scholar from Ireland.

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Ketill Flatnose

Ketill Björnsson, nicknamed Flatnose (Old Norse: Flatnefr), was a Norse King of the Isles of the 9th century. Gofraid of Lochlann and Ketill Flatnose are 9th-century rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles.

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Kingdom of Dublin

The Kingdom of Dublin (Old Norse: Dyflin) was a Norse kingdom in Ireland that lasted from roughly 853 AD to 1170 AD.

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Kingdom of the Isles

The Kingdom of the Isles was a Norse-Gaelic kingdom comprising the Isle of Man, the Hebrides and the islands of the Clyde from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD. Gofraid of Lochlann and kingdom of the Isles are 9th century in Scotland.

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Landnámabók

Landnámabók ("Book of Settlements"), often shortened to Landnáma, is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement (landnám) of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE.

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List of monarchs of Northumbria

Northumbria, a kingdom of Angles, in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland, was initially divided into two kingdoms: Bernicia and Deira.

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Lochlann

In the modern Gaelic languages, italics signifies Scandinavia or, more specifically, Norway. Gofraid of Lochlann and Lochlann are rulers of Lochlann.

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Lord of the Isles

Lord of the Isles or King of the Isles (Triath nan Eilean or Rìgh Innse Gall; Dominus Insularum) is a title of nobility in the Baronage of Scotland with historical roots that go back beyond the Kingdom of Scotland.

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Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid

Máel Sechnaill mac Máel Ruanaida (Modern Irish: Maolsheachlann Mac Maolruanaidh), also known as Máel Sechnaill I, anglicised as Malachy MacMulrooney (died 27 November 862) was High King of Ireland.

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Olaf Geirstad-Alf

Olaf Gudrødsson (c. 810 – c. 860), known after his death as Olaf Geirstad-Alf "Olaf, Elf of Geirstad" (Old Norse Ólafr Geirstaðaalfr), was a semi-legendary petty king in Norway.

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Olaf the White

Olaf the White (Óláfr hinn Hvíti) was a viking sea-king who lived in the latter half of the 9th century. Gofraid of Lochlann and Olaf the White are 870s deaths and 9th-century rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Orkneyinga saga

The Orkneyinga saga (Old Norse:; also called the History of the Earls of Orkney and Jarls' Saga) is a narrative of the history of the Orkney and Shetland islands and their relationship with other local polities, particularly Norway and Scotland.

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Picts

The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.

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Ragnall ua Ímair

Ragnall ua Ímair (Rǫgnvaldr, died 921) or Rægnald was a Viking leader who ruled Northumbria and the Isle of Man in the early 10th century. Gofraid of Lochlann and Ragnall ua Ímair are Uí Ímair.

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Ragnar Lodbrok

Ragnar Lodbrok ("Ragnar hairy-breeches") (Old Norse: Ragnarr loðbrók), according to legends, was a Viking hero and a Swedish and Danish king.

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The raven banner (hrafnsmerki; hravenlandeye) was a flag, possibly totemic in nature, flown by various Viking chieftains and other Scandinavian rulers during the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries.

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Rognvald Eysteinsson

Rognvald Eysteinsson (fl. 865) was the founding Jarl (or Earl) of Møre in Norway, and a close relative and ally of Harald Fairhair, the earliest known King of Norway.

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Scandinavian Scotland

Scandinavian Scotland was the period from the 8th to the 15th centuries during which Vikings and Norse settlers, mainly Norwegians and to a lesser extent other Scandinavians, and their descendants colonised parts of what is now the periphery of modern Scotland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofraid_of_Lochlann

Also known as Gofraid of Lochlainn.

Gofraid of Lochlann, the Glossary

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See also

870s deaths

9th century in Scotland

9th-century rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles

Rulers of Lochlann

Uí Ímair

References