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About this time Olaf Tryggvason before his conversion
buccaneered on the coasts of Wales, Man and the
Hebrides : and Svein, afterwards king of Denmark
and England, also attacked the island from his head-
quarters in Wales.
At the battle of Clontarf (1014), beside the men of
Orkney and Caithness are mentioned, in The Wars of
the Gaedhil and the Gaill, the hosts of Man, Skye,
Lewis, Kintyre, Argyll, "Cillemuine" (St. Davids)
and the people dwelling in the British land of "Cornbliteoc"
or "Cor na liagog," which Skene thought
might mean Galloway : can "Cornbliteoc"
be a mistranscription of some such word as "Combraeog"?
After this battle, which broke up the Norse power of
Orkney, jarl Gilli – who did not go to Clontarf – continued
to rule Colonsay and the surrounding islands,
but the Scottish chief Finlaec held Moray and Ross
independently of either Scotland or Orkney, and
perhaps annexed the northern Hebrides. Argyll, the
Dalir of the Norse, was held by a jarl Melkolf
(Malcolm), who also held Galloway, for we find
Kári Sölmundarson staying with him, apparently at
Whithorn, soon after the battle. Man continued
under the same family ; Svein (Suibhne), the last king
of the old Gallgael line, died in 1034, after which
Thorfinn, the great jarl of Orkney, extended his
dominion over all Scotland except Strathclyde, Fife
and Lothian, often making Galloway his head-quarters.
His dominion over the Isles probably meant little
more than that he took tribute and was recognised
as over-lord. In 1031 King Knút received the
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