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    Norse settlement The NorseGaels (Old Irish: Gall-Goídil; Irish: Gall-Ghaeil; Scottish Gaelic: Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed...
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    numbers of Vikings raided and settled in Gaelic lands, becoming the Norse-Gaels. In the 9th century, Dál Riata and Pictland merged to form the Gaelic...
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    by the Norse. Ethnogenesis of the Norse-Gaels. Map 20: Regions of Ireland settled by the Norse. Ethnogenesis of the Norse-Gaels. Norse-Gaels (Austmenn...
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    Norsemen (redirect from Norse Men)
    media related to Norse history and culture. Anglo-Scandinavian Danes (Germanic tribe) Geats Goths Gotlander Haplogroup I-M253 Norse-Gaels Swedes (Germanic...
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    The Scandinavian clan or ætt/ätt (pronounced [ˈæːtː] in Old Norse) was a social group based on common descent, equivalent to a clan. In the absence of...
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  • but also Norse-Irish or Norse-Gaels. Áed Findliath has been described as one of the Irish high-kings who most effectively fought the Norse expansion...
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    Manx people (redirect from Manx Gaels)
    The Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles was created by Godred Crovan in 1079. The Norse had a major impact on the island, leaving behind Norse placenames...
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    Vikings (redirect from Norse Vikings)
    also known as Varangians. The Normans, Norse-Gaels, Rus' people, Faroese, and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. At one point, a group of Rus...
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    Faroe Islanders (category Norse-Gaels)
    who arrived in the 6th century. The Norse-Gaels started going to the island in the ninth century; they brought Norse culture and language to the islands...
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    Viking Age (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese, and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. The Vikings founded several...
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    West Norse (Old West Nordic, often referred to as Old Norse), Old East Norse (Old East Nordic), and Old Gutnish. Old West Norse and Old East Norse formed...
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  • occasions allied to the Norse-Gaels. In 856 "[g]reat warfare between the heathens [the Norse or Danes] and Máel Sechnaill with the Norse-Irish" is reported...
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    Irish people (category Gaels)
    9th century, small numbers of Vikings settled in Ireland, becoming the Norse-Gaels. Anglo-Normans also conquered parts of Ireland in the 12th century, while...
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    Gallowglass (category Norse-Gaels)
    10th-century Norse settlers who had intermarried with the local population in western Scotland, the Irish called them Gall Gaeil ("foreign Gaels"). An early...
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    Norwegians, NorseGaels, Orkney Vikings, possibly Swedes, and Anglo-Danes from the English Danelaw territory which earlier came under Norse control in...
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    into Scotland from 1266 until the 14th century) was dominated by the NorseGaels from an early date and from 1079 onwards by the Crovan dynasty as attested...
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  • Vestmenn (category Gaels)
    Vestmenn (Westmen in English) was the Old Norse word for the Gaels of Ireland and Britain, especially Ireland and Scotland. Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland and...
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    Cnut (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    before him, had a strong interest and wielded much influence among the NorseGaels. Cnut's possession of England's dioceses and the continental Diocese...
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    Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic...
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    referred to as Cumbrians. There was some later settlement by Vikings or NorseGaels , although to a lesser degree than in neighbouring Galloway. A small...
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    Faroe Islands (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    language. A number of the settlers were NorseGaels who did not come directly from Scandinavia, but rather from Norse communities that spanned the Irish Sea...
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    Bretan, August iartair tuaiscirt Eorpa uile (High King of the Gaels of Ireland and the Norse foreigners and the Britons, Augustus of all north-western Europe)...
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    Clan MacLeod (category Norse-Gaels)
    Torcaill ("seed of Torcall"). Both branches claim descent from Leòd, a Norse-Gael who lived in the 13th century. Today, Clan MacLeod of The Lewes, Clan...
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  • Hålogaland, the Viking adventurer Ottir Iarla (Earl Ottir), historical Norse-Gael of Waterford and probable settler of Cork Jarl Ottar, earl of Götaland...
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    Lowlands. In the 13th century, the Norse-Gaels of the Western Isles became part of Scotland, followed by the Norse of the Northern Isles in the 15th century...
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  • or devotee of the Virgin Mary" and originated among the Celto-Norse people (Norse-Gaels) who populated the lands bordering the Irish and Hebridean seas...
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    Uí Ímair (category Gaelic families of Norse descent)
    meaning ‘scions of Ivar’), also known as the Ivar dynasty or Ivarids, was a Norse-Gael dynasty which ruled much of the Irish Sea region, the Kingdom of Dublin...
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    Runic magic (redirect from Norse Astrology)
    named Rimbert. Rimbert details the custom of casting lots by the pagan Norse (chapters 26–30). The chips and the lots, however, can be explained respectively...
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    Amlaíb Cuarán (category Norse-Gaels)
    Norse: Óláfr Sigtryggsson [ˈoːˌlɑːvz̠ ˈsiɡˌtryɡːsˌson]), commonly called Amlaíb Cuarán (O.N.: Óláfr kváran [ˈkwɑːrɑn]), was a 10th-century Norse-Gael...
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    Vikings began to establish their coastal settlements, but it was under the Norse-Gael Kingdom of Dublin that it reached its peak, in the 11th century. Early...
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