Thorgrim, the Killaloe Cross, and the Norwegian Campaign in Ireland in 1102–1103

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2019-12-31
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Murray, Griffin
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10.1484/J.PERIT.5.120988
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This note offers an identification, for the first time, of the individual named in inscriptions in Old Norse runes and scholastic ogham on a stone cross fragment at Killaloe, Co. Clare, and discusses the potential political context that led to the erection of the cross at the beginning of the twelfth century.
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Killaloe , Thorgrim , Magnús Barelegs , Muirchertach Ua Briain , Ireland and Norway , Runes , Ogham , Cross , Killaloe cathedral
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Murray, G. (2019) 'Thorgrim, the Killaloe Cross, and the Norwegian Campaign in Ireland in 1102–1103', Peritia, 30, pp. 237-242. doi: 10.1484/J.PERIT.5.120988
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