W. A. Craigie: _Oldnordiske Ord i de Gaeliske Sprog_ (_Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi_, X., 1894). C. Marstrander: _Bidrag til det Norske Sprogs Historie i Irland_. K. Meyer: Revue Celtique, X., pp. 367-9, XI., pp. 493-5, XII., pp. 460-3. [162] Marstrander (_op. cit._, p. 21) suggests that the word is connected with the O.N. dialectal form _berling_, “a little stick or beam under the shallows in a boat.” [163] Cf. the list of authorities referred to _ante_, pp. 38, 39. [164] The Norsemen sometimes adopted Irish fashions in their dress. The great Viking Magnus, who was killed in Ireland in A.D. 1103, was usually called “barelegs” (O.N. _berfaettr_) because he always wore the Irish kilts; and his son, Harold Gilli, who could speak Irish better than Norse, “much wore the Irish raiment, being short-clad and light-clad.” It was probably from his Irish _cuaran_, or shoes of skin that Olaf Sihtricsson, the famous King of Dublin received his nickname. [165] In the _Annals of the Four Masters_ (A.D. 960), _lagmainn_ is the name given to certain chieftains from the Hebrides who plundered the southern and eastern coasts of Ireland. [166] The word occurs only once in Irish: cf. _The Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel_, p. 140. [167] _The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill_, p. 203, says that when the Norsemen were fleeing after the battle of Clontarf, Earl Broder, accompanied by two warriors, passed by the tent in which King Brian was. One of these men, who had been in Brian’s service, saw the King and cried “Cing, Cing” (This is the King). “No, no, acht prist, prist” said Broder (No, no, it is a priest, said Broder). [168] These annals state that on one occasion (_A.D._ 869) Cennedigh of Leix, a brave Irish chieftain, was pursued by the Norsemen, who “blew their trumpets and raised angry barbarous shouts, many of them crying ‘_nui, nui_.’” [169] Marstrander (_op. cit._, p. 156) suggests, however, that _roth_ may be an archaic form of the Irish _ruadh_, ‘red.’ [170] Cf. W. A. Craigie: _Gaelic Words and Names in the Sagas and Landnámabók_. (_Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie_, Band I., pp. 439-454). A. Bugge: _Vesterlandenes Indflydelse paa Nordboernes i Vikingetiden_, ch. 9. See especially pp. 358-359. [171] There is an interesting account of the _gelt_ in the Old Norse _Konungs Skuggsjá_ (_Speculum Regale_): “It happens that when two hosts meet and are arranged in battle-array, and when the battle-cry is raised loudly on both sides, cowardly men run wild and lose their wits from the dread and fear which seize them. And they run into a wood away from other men, and live there like beasts and shun the meeting of men like wild beasts. And it is said of these men then when they have lived in the woods in that condition for twenty years, that feathers grew on their bodies like birds, whereby their bodies are protected against frost and cold…”