[57] Cf. The story of Samr, (_i.e._, probably Ir. sam, “happy” or “peaceful”) the Irish hound which Olaf Pai gave to Gunnarr. Samr was killed while defending his master’s homestead. (_Njáls Saga_, chs. 69, 75.) [58] _Annals of the Four Masters_, A.D. 820; _Fragments of Annals_, p. 166; _War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill_, p. 79; _The Victorious Career of Callachan of Cashel_, p. 9. [59] _Landnámabók_, V., ch. 8. [60] _Ib._, V., ch. 13. [61] _Ib_., III., ch. 9. [62] _Ib._, III., ch. 12. Rafarta was the wife of Eyvindr the Easterner, “who settled down in Ireland and had charge of Kjarval’s defences” (cf. _Grettis Saga_, ch. 3). _Orkneyinga Saga_ (ch. 11.) makes Edna (Ir. _Eithne_) another of Kjarval’s daughters to be the mother of Sigurthr, Earl of Orkney (killed in the battle of Clontarf, 1014); but owing to the chronological difficulty this is hardly likely. [63] _Landnámabók_, I., ch. 1. [64] _Ib._, II., ch. 15. [65] _Three Fragments of Annals_, p. 151. The same source (p. 173) mentions still another wife of Olaf, “the daughter of Cinaedh,” _i.e._, in all probability Cinaedh Mac Ailpin, King of the Picts (d. 858). [66] _Laxdaela Saga_ (translated by M.A.C. Press), chs. 12, 13, 20, 21. [67] The _Annals of the Four Masters_ record his death under the year 941: “Muirchertach of the Leather Cloaks, lord of Aileach, the Hector of the West of Europe in his time, was slain at Ardee by Blacaire, son of Godfrey, lord of the Foreigners.” Muirchertach’s grandson was killed by Olaf Cuaran. (_Ib._, A.D. 975). [68] _Ib._, A.D. 981. [69] _Ib._, A.D. 1021. [70] _War of the Gaedhit with the Gaill_, p. 142 ff.; _Njáls Saga_, chs. 153, 154. [71] _Annals of the Four Masters_, A.D. 851. [72] _Three Fragments of Annals_, pp. 119, 123. _Annals of Ulster_, A.D. 852. [73] _Chronicon Scotorum_, A.D. 883. [74] _Ib._, 886; _Annals of Ulster_, A.D. 885. [75] See A. Bugge: _Nordisk Sprog og Nordisk Nationalitet, i Irland_, pp. 284, 285. Professor Marstrander (_op. cit._, pp. 45, 46) takes _Gluntradna_ to be an Irish adaptation of an O.N. nickname _Trönu-Kné_, to which he compares _Trönubeina, the daughter of Thraell, in the Rígsthula_, 9. [76] Cf. the name Grímr Kamban (_Landnámabók_, Hauksbók MS., ch. 19) which seems to be a Norse form of the Irish _Camman_. [77] According to A. Bugge, _Dubhcenn_ is a translation of the O.N. _Svarthöfthi_, but Marstrander (_op. cit._, p. 45) holds that the name was known in Ireland before the Viking age. It may be suggested that it was a nickname given to Ivarr’s son by the Irish. Cf. Olaf _Cuaran_ (Ir. _cuaran_, a shoe made of skin); Olaf _Cenncairech_ (_i.e._, “Scabby-head.”) [78] Their mother was an Irishwoman, sister of Donnabhan, King of Ui Fidgenti. Donnabhan himself was married to a daughter of Ivarr, King of Limerick. (_War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill_, p. 207).