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Lamont (O.N, Lögmathr) ; Kettle (O.N. Ketill) ;
Kitterick
(? Ir. Mac+N. Sigtryggr) ; MacKeever (O.N. Ivarr) ;
Manus and MacManus (O.N. Magnus) ; Quistan (Ir. Mac.+
O.N. Eysteinn) ; Reynolds (O.N. Rögnvaldr) ; Sigerson
(O.N. Sigurtur) and MacSorley (O.N. Sumarlithi).
Both Gaill and Gaedhil, so dissimilar in many ways,
benefited by their intercourse with one another. In Ireland
the Vikings played an important part in the development
of trade ; they also promoted the growth of town life. We
may trace the beginnings of the seaport towns, Dublin,
Limerick, Waterford and Wexford, to the forts built by
them near the large harbours in the ninth and tenth
centuries. In Dublin coins were minted for the first time
in Ireland 1
during the reign of Sihtric Silken Beard (c.
989-1042). Moreover, the large number of loan-words from
Old Norse which made their way into Irish shows that the
Irish learned in many other ways from the invaders, notably
in shipbuilding and navigation.
So far as literature and art are concerned, the period of
the Viking occupation is one of the most interesting in the
history of Ireland. In spite of the destruction of the
monasteries and the departure of numbers of the monks 2
1
From the contemporary Irish poems the Book of Rights and The
Curcuit of Muirchertach Mac Neill it may be inferred that in ancient
Ireland all payments were made in kind. With the extension of
trade, however, it is probable that many Anglo-Saxon and other
foreign coins including those of the Scandinavian Kings of North-
umbria, several of whom also reigned in Ireland came to be circulated
in Ireland. The Vikings in England struck coins there during the
reign of Halfdanr (d. 877). (Cf. C. F. Keary :
Catalogue of Coins in
the British Museum, I., p. 202).
2
One of these fugitives wrote the following lines on the margin
of Priscian’s Latin Grammar in the monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland:
"
Is acher ingaith innocht fufuasna fairge findfolt,
Ni agor reimm mora minn dond laechraid lainn na lothlind."
(Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus. Ed- Stokes and Stracban, II., 290.)
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