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    Norse settlement The NorseGaels (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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    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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    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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    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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    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 NorseGaels 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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    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 NorseGaels , although to a lesser degree than in neighbouring Galloway. A small...
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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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    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 NorseGael warlord forced out of Irland Harry Gilby as Aethelstan (series 5; Seven...
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