-
aristocratic free enterprise, and
named leaders appear in the
Irish annals:
Saxolb (Soxulfr) in 837,
Turges (Þurgestr) in 845,
Agonn (Hákon) in 847. Áed Oirdnide...
- able to
eventually win a
victory over the
Norse and slew
their leader Saxolb. ****mascach died in 839 and is
styled rex
Ciannactai — King of Ciannachta...
- 15th/16th
century Annals of Ulster, for example,
reports the
deaths of
Saxolb, Tuirgéis, Agonn, and
Tomrair in the 830s and 840s,
before naming the first...
-
enters the
River Liffey in
eastern Ireland,
probably led by the
chieftain Saxolb (Soxulfr) who is
killed later this year. The
Vikings overwinter on Lough...
-
including presumably those at Dublin.
Later in the same year, a
certain Saxolb (Söxulfr), "chief of the foreigners", was
killed in
Brega by the Uí Colgain...
- two as brothers. The
first Vikings attested by the
Annals of
Ulster are
Saxolb (died 837), Tuirgéis (died 845),
Agonn (died 847), and
Tomrair himself....
