The Vikings and the kingship of Tara

Jaski, Bart

doi:10.1484/j.peri.3.254

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Ecclesiastical Memory and The Viking Excuse1

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“…The vikings have been seen as catalysts of dynastic change and even unification. It has been argued that the vikings in Ireland caused the decline of the dominant northern Uí Néill dynasties and the rise of the south (Jaski, 1995). The merging of the Picts and Gaels to form Alba (the core of the later Scottish kingdom) has been attributed to vikings: either they eliminated Pictish defences enabling a Gaelic takeover or their attacks on the western seaboard pushed the Gaels into Pictland (Foster, 1996; Woolf, 2007, p. 66, p. 111).…”

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