-
called Amlaíb
Cuarán (O.N.: Óláfr kváran [ˈkwɑːrɑn]), was a 10th-century Norse-Gael who was King of
Northumbria and Dublin. His byname,
cuarán, is usually...
- Stamford. Olaf died in 941 and was
succeeded in
Northumbria by his
cousin Olaf
Cuaran. At the time of his death, the
Irish annals title him "king of Danes" and...
- High King of Ireland. His
great victory at the
Battle of Tara
against Olaf
Cuaran in 980
resulted in
Gaelic Irish control of the
Kingdom of Dublin. Máel Sechnaill...
-
Gofraid mac
Sitriuc belonged to. One such family,
descended from Amlaíb
Cúarán, King of
Northumbria and Dublin,
appears to have
cooperated with Diarmait...
- Dublin, his son
Aralt (Harald) as king of Limerick, and his son Amlaíb
Cuarán as king of both
Dublin and Northumbria. The
ruling Vikings of
Dublin were...
- of Cathróe has been
erroneously supplanted for Eric's
predecessor Amlaíb
Cuarán (Olaf Sihtricsson),
whose (second) wife Dúnflaith was an Irishwoman. Recently...
-
Guthfrithson died in 942 and was
replaced by Olaf
Cuaran. Then in 943 the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle says that Olaf
Cuaran was baptised, with
Edmund as sponsor, and...
- (perhaps
because of his
inability to
defend the city) by his
cousin Amlaíb
Cuarán, who had
succeeded Blácaire's
brother in
Northumbria in 941, but had been...
-
ruled Northumbria in 943 and 944,
either with, or in
opposition to, Olaf
Cuaran.
Ragnall and Olaf were
driven out of
Northumbria by the
English in 944....
-
depict a
tilted cross (possibly a bird)
appears on a
penny minted by Olaf
Cuaran around 940. The coin
features a
roughly right isosceles triangular standard...
