Norse settlement The Norse–Gaels (Old Irish: Gall-Goídil; Irish: Gall-Ghaeil; Scottish Gaelic: Gall-Gàidheal; Manx: Goal-Gael, 'foreigner-Gaels') were...
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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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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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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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Vikings (redirect from Norse Vikings)
were also known as Varangians. The Normans, Norse-Gaels, Rus, Faroese, and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. At one point, a group of Rus Vikings...
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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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Scandinavian Scotland (redirect from Norse activity in Scotland)
into Scotland from 1266 until the 14th century) was dominated by the Norse–Gaels from an early date and from 1079 onwards by the Crovan dynasty as attested...
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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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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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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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America. Groups that arose from this expansion include the Normans, the Norse–Gaels and the Rus' people. The North Germanic peoples of the Viking Age went...
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Faroe Islands (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
Settlement of Iceland, the islands were mainly settled by Norwegians and Norse-Gaels who also brought thralls (i.e. slaves or serfs) of Gaelic origin. Initially...
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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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Kingdom of Dublin (redirect from List of Norse monarchs of Dublin)
began to exhibit a great deal of Gaelic and Norse cultural syncretism, and are often referred to as Norse-Gaels.[citation needed] In 988, Máel Sechnaill...
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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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the rock, until around 870 when the rock was captured and sacked by Norse-Gaels from the kingdom of Dublin after a four-month siege. Thereafter the centre...
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Gaelicisation (category Gaels)
something Gaelic, or gaining characteristics of the Gaels, a sub-branch of celticisation. The Gaels are an ethno-linguistic group, traditionally viewed...
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referred to as Cumbrians. There was some later settlement by Vikings or Norse–Gaels , although to a lesser degree than in neighbouring Galloway. A small...
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Norwegians, Norse–Gaels, Orkney Vikings, possibly Swedes, and Anglo-Danes from the English Danelaw territory which earlier came under Norse control in...
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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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Gaelic Ireland (category Gaels)
large towns. Over time, these settlers were assimilated and became the Norse-Gaels. After the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169–71, large swathes of Ireland...
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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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conquered Temeria), the Skellige islands (home to several clans who resemble Norse-Gaels), and the witcher stronghold of Kaer Morhen. The main character is the...
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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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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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legend, Scota is the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh and ancestor of the Gaels. She is said to be the origin of their Latin name Scoti, but historians...
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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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Sigtryggr (series 4–5), the grandson of Ivar the Boneless and a cunning Norse–Gael warlord forced out of Irland Harry Gilby as Aethelstan (series 5; Seven...
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