Ragnall ua Imair
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 92 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5120-6836-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ragnall (Old Irish: Ragnall ua Imair,Old Norse: Rognvaldr) (died 920 or 921) was a Norse overlord or emperor of northern Britain, including Northumbria, the entire Irish Sea region including the Isle of Man, south to Waterford and briefly much of the Irish province of Munster, and then returning to Britain, briefly York as distinct from Northumbria at this time. According to the majority of modern scholars, at his height he was the most powerful Norse ruler the Anglo-Celtic Isles had yet seen. Ragnall was one of the grandsons of Imar, the dynasty known as the Ui Imair or House of Ivar, along with his contemporary kinsmen Sihtric Caech and Gofraid. Although once questioned, the identity between the Ragnall of the Irish Sea and Ragnald of northern Britain is no longer in doubt. He may or may not have ruled territory in western and northern Scotland including the Hebrides and Northern Isles, but contemporary sources are silent on this matter....