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... saga of Niall's death attributes his slaying to a Leinster prince , Eochu son of Énda Cennselach . Two distinct traditions appear to have been clumsily conflated in this death - tale , the other of which regarded Niall as having died in ...
... saga of Niall's death attributes his slaying to a Leinster prince , Eochu son of Énda Cennselach . Two distinct traditions appear to have been clumsily conflated in this death - tale , the other of which regarded Niall as having died in ...
Page 112
... saga relates an expedition by Fiachnae mac Báetáin to Dún Guaire i Saxanaib , i.e. , Bamborough in England , which the Welsh historian Nennius refers to as Din Guayroi : it is not certain whether the annalistic entry at 623 ' Expugnatio ...
... saga relates an expedition by Fiachnae mac Báetáin to Dún Guaire i Saxanaib , i.e. , Bamborough in England , which the Welsh historian Nennius refers to as Din Guayroi : it is not certain whether the annalistic entry at 623 ' Expugnatio ...
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... saga of the ' Battle of Allen , ' where as we have seen the high king Fergal mac Máele Dúin fell in 722. This is the latest historical event to be enshrined in saga literature . The period around the year 730 saw the consolidation of ...
... saga of the ' Battle of Allen , ' where as we have seen the high king Fergal mac Máele Dúin fell in 722. This is the latest historical event to be enshrined in saga literature . The period around the year 730 saw the consolidation of ...
Contents
List of Illustrations | vii |
Acknowledgements | xiv |
A Note on the Emergence of Irish Surnames | xxxi |
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abbot Adomnán Áed mac Ailill Áine Airgialla Airthir ancestor annalistic Annals of Ulster Armagh battle Brega Bréifne Cellach Cenél Conaill Cenél nEógain church Ciarraige Clann Cholmáin Clonmacnoise Coirpre Colmán Conall Conchobar Corc Corco Cormac mac Crimthann Cruthin Dál Cais Dál Fiatach Dál nAraidi Dál Riata death Déisi descendants Diarmait mac Cerbaill Domnall Donnchad Dublin Dúin dynasty Early Irish Echach eighth century Eochaid Eógan Eóganacht Feidlimid mac Flann genealogical Guaire high-king high-kingship Kildare king of Cashel king of Connacht king of Leinster king of Munster king of Tara king of Uí kingdom kingship Laigin later Lóeguire mac Crimthainn mac Máele Máel Máelsechnaill Mide Mór Muirchertach Muiredach Múscraige Niall Óengus Osraige Patrick pedigree poem province regnal lists royal saga seventh century Síl slain Sláine tenth century tract tradition tribal tribes tuath Ua Briain Uí Briúin Uí Cheinnselaig Uí Dúnlainge Uí Fiachrach Uí Maine Ulaid