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Fantastically explained as usual! Thanks so much for the shout out! 👍

It was really interesting at the 2014 Battle of Clontarf weekend how Brian Boru couldn't have become high king without hiring Scandinavian mercenaries to overcome coming from a minor clan.

I have read that one result that came out of the battle of Clontarf was the end of or diminishment of direct influence from Kings in Scandinavia in Ireland and its politics. The Irish Vikings usually had an Irish mother and were not purely Viking so they wanted to end influence from outside of Ireland in Irish politics. Without a doubt, the Kings in Scandinavia still tried to exert control directly over parts of Ireland and I think this was resented by all local people and may have led to the battle of Clontarf to end their influence.

Another great vid, really enjoying your content man

Them Vikings better not come back or we'll Boru their @$$

Do any of the main family names in West Cork(Skibb) have any Viking links? I read something about the O'Donovans having links.

I heard the Vikings and Irish fought on equal grounds at times and over time the Vikings respected the Celts and over time integrated with the Irish. I got mostly Irish,Welsh, and some Viking DNA mixed my Irish Ancestry comes frome Kilkenny still researching my Welsh side.

Excellent as always.

The Vikings allied with the Irish of St. Finbarr's Cork to fight against the Kingdom of Cashel... leading to a millennial rivalry and the phrase "Tipp bate and the hay saved" 🏒 (Bate = beaten if you're not from Munster ",)

Agree but don’t think by the 1500s the Desmond Fitzgeralds and the MacSweeneys would have been thought as “ foreigners”

Good video, thank you for the details of the Vikings in Cork.

Have just watched the recent video by Clans & Dynasties and noticed in the 1450 map of clans, that Burkes and ‘Mayo’ Burkes were prevalent in the West. Do you have any further history on these clans (my name is Burke) or can you direct me somewhere? Is there likely any Viking ancestry in my family? Thanks for your great, informative video.

Very interesting! I'm in the US, and have some Irish ancestry.

Question, did the different tribes speak different languages and was it common knowledge of different speaking tribes in different parts of Ireland due to migration? This may be an Ulster unionist revisionist review of Irish history

Do you think if Brian Boru had lived, the Dal gCais would've been able to maintain control of the high kingship?

The Vikings mixed heavily with the Clans of the Gaels today's Irish and Southwestern Scottish. I'm American and mix of European ancestry. I have some Norwegian on my father's side, and some Scottish/Irish heritage on my mothers side, McDonald/McDonnell, either Hebrides Scottish Catholics descendents of Norse-Gael or Co.Mayo descendents of the Gallowglass McDonalds/McDonnells, whom as you know were also Norse-Gael (Mixed Norwegian-Scottish mercenaries in Ireland in service of the Irish Clans). My mom grew up Catholic so that matches those two regions. Norwegians had an impact more on Western Scotland and Ireland especially Dublin and Waterford. Whereas Danes were more in England (Danelaw). My Norwegian side Nelson was from Southwestern Norway, which was a source of many of the Vikings who went to Scotland and Ireland. Many of those same people went onto help found Iceland after they took Irish women along with them, even some men joined along either as slaves or just as being associates of the Vikings. Iceland is essentially as much Irish as it is Norwegian. Mainly Norwegian on the Y-DNA and Irish on the MtDNA. Cool page. Btw I studied Japanese and traveled there, can't wait to get back. 乾杯! Slainte!

I would overall disagree that there wasn't an irish vs viking theme during our history. Vikings attacked monasteries, which were our actual first cities, not the viking longforts. They also reintroduced slavery and heavily depopulated the boyne valled for generations which prevented our country from centralising around that are like it had been in the process of doing so. If anything, brian boru was symptomatic of the norse presence. Hence why he became the closest to being an undisputed ruler of the island aside from Ruari O'Connor. But if it wasn't for the relentless viking raids into the most economically important region of ireland who knows what could've happened. Yes, the vikings very clearly after some years became an indigenous irish force, but they still brought a lot of foregn concepts here that were clearly negative.

Do we know why the monastic settlements moved to the periphery at that time was it religious move or a power move?

Duffy's book is excellent. The picture I got was that it was much more complicated than one side vs another 100% of the time, given the mercenaries, but that Brian had nonetheless achieved a significant victory of some extent at Clontarf. He also speculated on the idea of Brian possibly being acknowledged in Gaelic Scotland, which I suppose blurs the line between our modern definitions of Irish and Scottish.

I'm a bloodline descendent of the captains of Galloway it's quite an interesting history of the struggles that Vikings and Celts went through political survival I'm also related to the earls of atholl

Much appreciated, greetings from Co. Antrim. :-)

Glory to The Irish celts

Thanks again mate.The vikings must of got on with some Irish.My surname means Son of Olaf

Great stuff my friend! Interesting as always!

Great video!! Explained it very well. I think the war of the Irish with the foreigners, though anyone who knows of it knows it’s propaganda, attached itself to popular culture and national psyche over time. It’s a pity because Brian Boru debunked the Ui Neill myth and loosened their grip on power. He asserted himself as high king, and was perhaps the only true high king, at least for the period. His destabilisation of power and the shift in the balance is way more significant, especially in the context of the centuries that followed

Me: Mcsweeneys, fucking blowins. "...the Fitzgeralds being referred to as the old English contingent...." Now hold on a second

Why is it a myth?.. Great depiction by the way..

The idea that men would invade, rape and settle, over and over all over the place isn’t a popular view on history. No wonder we are taught in schools about nations of people acting against nations. When really, it was eventually settlements against their neighbours until an homogeneous people emerged from the victors. As in real estate, location, location, location. By that I mean travel limited folks so gradually bigger and bigger areas were considered homogenous. The emergence of countries after the age of local settlements versus their neighbours.

I see what you saying but I think it’s still an over-reaction to say it’s a myth period. I think a review of the numbers of Vikings vs natives on each side would still play out. I think it better to say it’s a little more complex than Irish vs Viking but a general truth of that does remain. This is the problem I see with historical revisionism is that it swings the other way too far.

Great video!

Great video

So much history is distorted by nationalism.

Great video, very informative. It's fairly depressing and boring though, that what was supposedly one of Ireland's great victories (the Battle of Clontarf) was just Irish people fighting other Irish people.

Vikings Celts pagan brothers