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Norse–Gaels

Index Norse–Gaels

The Norse–Gaels (Gall-Goídil; Irish: Gall-Ghaeil; Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture. [1]

100 relations: Aulay, Óttar, Birlinn, Brian, Caill Tomair, Cawley, Christianity, Clan Donald, Clan MacDougall, Clan MacIver, Clan MacLeod, Clan McCorquodale, Clan Morrison, Clann Ruaidhrí, Cork (city), Corkill, Cormac, Cotter family, Cottier (surname), Cowley (surname), Culdees, Cumbria, Dicuil, Diocese of Sodor and Man, Dublin, Earl of Orkney, Faroe Islands, Gaelicisation, Gaels, Gallowglass, Goidelic languages, Grímur Kamban, Hebrides, History of Ireland (800–1169), Iceland, Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland, Irish galley, Irish language, Irish Sea, Isle of Man, Ivar (disambiguation), James Hunter (historian), Kingdom of Dublin, Kingdom of the Isles, Lambay Island, Landnámabók, Lawley (surname), Leod, Limerick, List of monarchs of Northumbria, ..., List of rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles, Longship, Lord of Galloway, Lord of the Isles, Mac Íomhair, MacAskill, Macaulay (surname), MacGyver (1985 TV series), McAuliffe (surname), McCaskill, McCorquodale, McIver, McIvor (surname), McKeever, McKittrick, Middle Irish, Muirchertach, Niall, Normans, Normans in Ireland, Norse mythology, Norsemen, Olaf (disambiguation), Old Norse, Outer Hebrides, Oxmantown, Papar, Patreksfjörður, Ragnall (name), River Liffey, Rognvald, Saint Patrick, Scandinavian Scotland, Scandinavian York, Scottish clan, Scottish Gaelic, Settlement of Iceland, Sigtrygg, Somerled, Thorkel, Uí Ímair, Vestmanna, Vestmannaeyjar, Vestmenn, Viking Age, Vikings, Waterford, Wexford, 12th century, 9th century. Expand index (50 more) »

Aulay

Aulay is a Scottish masculine given name.

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Óttar

Óttar or Ottar may refer to.

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Birlinn

The birlinn (spelt bìrlinn in Scottish Gaelic) was a wooden vessel propelled by sail and oar, used extensively in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland from the Middle Ages on.

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Brian

Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan origin.

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Caill Tomair

Caill Tomair (Old Irish 'Thor's Grove') was a sacred grove dedicated to the North Germanic god Thor.

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Cawley

Cawley is a surname in the English language.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Clan Donald

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

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Clan MacDougall

Clan MacDougall is a Highland Scottish clan.

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Clan MacIver

Clan MacIver or Clan MacIvor, also known as Clan Iver, is Scottish clan recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms.

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Clan MacLeod

Clan MacLeod (Clann MhicLeòid) is a Highland Scottish clan associated with the Isle of Skye.

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Clan McCorquodale

Clan McCorquodale is a Scottish clan, recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, though without a chief so recognised.

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Clan Morrison

Clan Morrison is a Scottish clan.

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Clann Ruaidhrí

Clann Ruaidhrí was a leading mediaeval kindred in the Hebrides and the western seaboard of Scotland.

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Cork (city)

Cork (from corcach, meaning "marsh") is a city in south-west Ireland, in the province of Munster, which had a population of 125,622 in 2016.

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Corkill

Corkill is a surname of Irish and Manx origin.

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Cormac

Cormac is a masculine given name in the Irish and English languages.

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Cotter family

The Norse-Gaelic Cotter family (Irish Mac Coitir or Mac Oitir) of Ireland, was associated with County Cork and ancient Cork city.

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Cottier (surname)

Cottier is a surname.

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Cowley (surname)

Cowley is a surname in the English language.

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Culdees

The Culdees (Céilí Dé, "Companions of God") were members of ascetic Christian monastic and eremitical communities of Ireland, Scotland, and England in the Middle Ages.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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Dicuil

Dicuilus (or the more vernacular version of the name Dicuil) was an Irish monk and geographer, born during the second half of the 8th century.

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Diocese of Sodor and Man

The Diocese of Sodor and Man is a diocese of the Church of England.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Earl of Orkney

The Earl of Orkney was originally a Norse jarl ruling the Norðreyjar (the islands of Orkney and Shetland).

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Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands (Føroyar; Færøerne), sometimes called the Faeroe Islands, is an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland, north-northwest of Scotland.

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Gaelicisation

Gaelicisation, or Gaelicization, is the act or process of making something Gaelic, or gaining characteristics of the Gaels.

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Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil, Na Gàidheil, Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to northwestern Europe.

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Gallowglass

The gallowglasses (also spelt galloglass, gallowglas or galloglas; from gall óglaigh meaning foreign warriors) were a class of elite mercenary warriors who were principally members of the Norse-Gaelic clans of Scotland between the mid 13th century and late 16th century.

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Goidelic languages

The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.

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Grímur Kamban

Grímur Kamban was, according to the Færeyinga saga, the first man to set foot in the Faroe Islands.

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Hebrides

The Hebrides (Innse Gall,; Suðreyjar) compose a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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History of Ireland (800–1169)

The history of Ireland 800–1169 covers the period in the history of Ireland from the first Viking raids to the Norman invasion.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland

The Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland is a marine area designated by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO).

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Irish galley

The Irish galley was a vessel in use in the West of Ireland down to the seventeenth century, and was propelled both by oars and sail.

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Irish language

The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea (Muir Éireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Y Keayn Yernagh, Erse Sea, Muir Èireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Môr Iwerddon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the Straits of Moyle.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Ivar (disambiguation)

Ivar may refer to.

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James Hunter (historian)

Dr James Hunter CBE (born 1948) is Director for the UHI Centre for History, Chairman of the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust and formerly the Chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Inverness-based development and training agency for the North of Scotland.

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Kingdom of Dublin

Vikings invaded the territory around Dublin in the 9th century, establishing the Norse Kingdom of Dublin, the earliest and longest-lasting Norse kingdom in Ireland.

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Kingdom of the Isles

The Kingdom of the Isles comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD.

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Lambay Island

Lambay, sometimes referred to as Lambay Island (called in Reachrainn) lies in the Irish Sea off the coast of north County Dublin in Ireland.

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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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Lawley (surname)

Lawley is a surname.

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Leod

Leod (Scottish Gaelic: Leòd; Old Norse: Ljótr) (1200 – 1280) is considered the eponymous ancestor and founder of Clan MacLeod and Clan MacLeod of Lewis.

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Limerick

Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in County Limerick, Ireland.

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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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List of rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles

The Kingdom of the Isles comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD.

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Longship

Longships were a type of ship invented and used by the Norsemen (commonly known as the Vikings) for commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age.

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Lord of Galloway

The lords of Galloway consisted of a dynasty of heirs who were lords (or kings) and ladies who ruled over Galloway in southwest Scotland, mainly during the High Middle Ages.

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Lord of the Isles

The Lord of the Isles (Triath nan Eilean or Rìgh Innse Gall) is a title of Scottish nobility with historical roots that go back beyond the Kingdom of Scotland.

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Mac Íomhair

Mac Íomhair is a masculine surname in the Irish language.

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MacAskill

MacAskill, also spelt Macaskill, is a surname.

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Macaulay (surname)

Macaulay, Macauley, MacAulay, McAulay and McAuley are surnames in the English language.

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MacGyver (1985 TV series)

MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff and starring Richard Dean Anderson as the title character.

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McAuliffe (surname)

McAuliffe or MacAuliffe is a surname of Norse Irish origin.

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McCaskill

McCaskill is a surname.

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McCorquodale

McCorquodale is surname of Scottish origin.

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McIver

MacIver, McIver are Scottish and northern Irish surnames.

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McIvor (surname)

MacIvor, Macivor, and McIvor are surnames in the English language.

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McKeever

McKeever is a Scottish and Irish surname.

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McKittrick

McKittrick may refer to:;People.

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Middle Irish

Middle Irish (sometimes called Middle Gaelic, An Mheán-Ghaeilge) is the Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland, most of Scotland and the Isle of Man from circa 900-1200 AD; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old English and early Middle English.

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Muirchertach

Muirchertach (modern spelling: Muircheartach, anglicised as Murtagh) is an Irish language male given name meaning "mariner".

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Niall

Niall is a male given name of Irish origin, thought to mean "champion" (derived from the Old Irish word niadh meaning warrior or champion).

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Normans in Ireland

The Normans in Ireland, or Hiberno-Normans, were a group of Normans who invaded the various realms of Gaelic Ireland.

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Norse mythology

Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.

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Norsemen

Norsemen are a group of Germanic people who inhabited Scandinavia and spoke what is now called the Old Norse language between 800 AD and c. 1300 AD.

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Olaf (disambiguation)

Olaf is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch given name.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Outer Hebrides

The Outer Hebrides, also known as the Western Isles (Na h-Eileanan Siar or Na h-Eileanan an Iar), Innse Gall ("islands of the strangers") or the Long Isle or the Long Island (An t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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Oxmantown

Oxmantown or Oxmanstown is an area of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the Northside of the city between the River Liffey, the North Circular Road, and Smithfield Market.

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Papar

The Papar (from Latin papa, via Old Irish, meaning "father" or "pope") were, according to early Icelandic sagas, Irish monks who took eremitic residence in parts of what is now Iceland before that island's habitation by the Norsemen of Scandinavia, as evidenced by the sagas and recent archaeological findings.

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Patreksfjörður

Patreksfjörður ("Patrick's fjord") is an Icelandic village in the Westfjords with 687 inhabitants (2017 census).

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Ragnall (name)

Ragnall, Raghnall, Raonall, and Raonull are masculine personal names or given names in several Gaelic languages.

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River Liffey

The River Liffey (Irish: An Life) is a river in Ireland, which flows through the centre of Dublin.

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Rognvald

Ragnvald or Rognvald is an Old Norse name (Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr, modern Icelandic Rögnvaldur; in Old English Rægnald and in Old Irish, Middle Irish Ragnall).

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Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick (Patricius; Pádraig; Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland.

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Scandinavian Scotland

Scandinavian Scotland refers to 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 descendents colonised parts of what is now the periphery of modern Scotland.

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Scandinavian York

Scandinavian York (also referred to as Jórvík) or Danish/Norwegian York is a term used by historians for the south of Northumbria (modern day Yorkshire) during the period of the late 9th century and first half of the 10th century, when it was dominated by Norse warrior-kings; in particular, used to refer to the city (York) controlled by these kings.

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Scottish clan

A Scottish clan (from Gaelic clann, "children") is a kinship group among the Scottish people.

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Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic, sometimes also referred to simply as Gaelic (Gàidhlig) or the Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland.

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Settlement of Iceland

The age of settlement of Iceland (Icelandic: landnámsöld) is generally believed to have begun in the second half of the 9th century, when Norse settlers migrated across the North Atlantic.

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Sigtrygg

Sigtrygg (Sigtryggr) is an Old Norse given name, composed of the elements sig "victory" and trygg "trusty, true".

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Somerled

Somerled (died 1164), known in Middle Irish as Somairle, Somhairle, and Somhairlidh, and in Old Norse as Sumarliði, was a mid-12th-century warlord who, through marital alliance and military conquest, rose in prominence and seized control of the Kingdom of the Isles.

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Thorkel

Thorkel or Thorkell is an Old Norse masculine personal name.

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Uí Ímair

The Uí (h)Ímair, or Dynasty of Ivar, was a royal Norse dynasty which ruled much of the Irish Sea region, the Kingdom of Dublin, the western coast of Scotland, including the Hebrides and some part of Northern England, from the mid 9th century.

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Vestmanna

Vestmanna (Vestmannahavn) is a town in the Faroe Islands on the west of the island of Streymoy.

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Vestmannaeyjar

Vestmannaeyjar (sometimes anglicized as Westman Islands) is a town and archipelago off the south coast of Iceland.

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Vestmenn

Vestmenn (Westmen in English) was the Old Norse word for the Gaels of Ireland and Britain, especially Ireland.

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Viking Age

The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Waterford

Waterford (from Old Norse Veðrafjǫrðr, meaning "ram (wether) fjord") is a city in Ireland.

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Wexford

Wexford (Yola: Weiseforth) is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland.

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12th century

The 12th century is the period from 1101 to 1200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era.

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9th century

The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse–Gaels

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