![]() Drowning was not uncommon at this time and may have been part of the practice of the threefold death which was popular with Indo-European vanquishers at this time. ![]() In 845, the first Viking leader of the Norse Kingdom of Dublin, Turgesius, was captured by Mael Seachnaill, King of Meath, and drowned in Lough Owel. 15 on Ushers Quay at this site is the house of James Joyce’s, “The Dead”! Dame Street did not exist and was thought to have been part of the estuary, thus allowing the shipts to moor here at the confluence of the Rivers Liffey and the Poddle.įour years later the Annals of Ulster refer also to “foreigners” at Áth Cliath (Irish for Dublin) which was a village at the time this may simply be a loose reference to the settlement at Duibhlinn, but it is possible that the native settlement of Áth Cliath was also seized and a second longphort established on the Liffey - possibly at Usher’s Island. The longphort in Dublin is thought to have been at the current site of Dublin Castle, as it overlooked the Black Pool (Dubhlinn) which served as a natural harbour for the new town. This was a naval encampment which allowed Vikings to stay in Ireland for longer periods through harsh winters they could repair and prepare their fleets they had both military and trading purposes. In 841 the first Viking longphort was established in Dublin (one was also built in Annagassan in Co. The huge number of artefacts and burials discovered here in Dublin attest to this. It became the earliest, largest and most enduring Norse kingdom in all of Europe. The Kingdom of Dublin was established in 839, and Turgesius was its first king. The Irish climate was relatively mild and there was access to vast forests- a valuable resource with which to repair their sturdy ships. Attracted to the deep waters of the peat-basined river, it was an ideal shelter for the warriors from the often stormy Northern seas. In 837 the arrival on the Liffey of the large fleet of Viking longships signalled a change in Viking Age Ireland.
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