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900-c.1050 AD Early Middle Irish
linguistic period. Decline of Latin
learning; elaboration of Irish native
traditions; dindsheanchas poetry.
900-c.911 AD Hiberno- Norse
infiltration of Cumberland, Lancashire,
and Cheshire.
900 AD Secularisation of
monastic schools.
908 AD Flann Sinna, king of
Tara, defeats Cormac mac
Cuilennáin, king bishop of
Cashel, at Belach Mughna Co. Carlow.
c.909x916 AD Flann's cross
(Cross of Scriptures ) erected at
Clonmacnoise.
914 AD Large Viking fleet
establishes a base at Waterford.
916-937 AD Reign of High-king
Niall Glúndub.???
920- 952 AD Dublin kings strike
coins at York.
921-926/7 AD Sitric, grandson of
Ivar, king of Dublin, reigns in York.
922 AD Foundation of Norse town
in Limerick.
c.924 AD Muiredach's cross at
Monasterboice.
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900 AD The term Alba, for
'Scotland', first appears during the rule
of Constantine. For the first time,
kingship depends on dynastic succession,
descent from Cinaed mac Ailpín.
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964 AD Rise of Dál Cais:
Mathgamain mac Cennétig seizes
kingship of Cashel.
970-980 AD Saint Catroe of
Armagh founds monastery at Metz.
975 AD Death of Cináed ua
hArtacáin, 'chief poet of
Ireland'.
Monastery of Saint Martin's at Cologne
assigned to Irish monks.
978 AD Brian Bóruma mac
Cennétig defeats Máel Muad
mac Brain and becomes king of Munster.
980 AD Mael Sechnaill II
captures Dublin.
981 & 989 AD Mael Sechnaill
II captures Dublin for the third time;
seizes ring of Thor and sword of
Carlus.
999 AD Brian Bóruma
defeats Máel Mórda, king of
Leinster, and Sitric Silkbeard, at Glen
Máma, near Saggart, Co Dublin.
Late 10th C, Viking hoard of 25 silver
bracelets found on the eastern shore of
Clew Bay.
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950 AD King Håkon
Adalstenfostre's first attempt to
christianize Norway
On the west coast of Norway 60
stone-crosses
are erected before 995 AD. Similar
crosses are found in Britain and Ireland,
but not known from other places? Also
graves indicate contact with British
Isles, mainly on the southwest coast of
Norway, interpreted as a result of
expansion from Rogaland to Ireland.
Olav Tryggvason left England, went over
to the Faeroes and set ahead against
Norway in the summer of AD 995, to claim
the throne of Norway and to bring
Christianity to the country.
King Olav Tryggvason's journey to
Northern Norway at the end of 10th century
AD. The killing of two powerful northern
Norwegian chieftains using their pagan
belief to legitimize his actions. One of
these chieftains (Tore Hjort) came from
the Lofoten Isles.
960-962 AD Christian King Harald
Blåtann - King of Denmark
re-establish the Danish influence in
Norway
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970s AD The Kingdom of the Isles
emerges, Gaelic-speaking Nosremen,
including the Isle of Man and most of the
Hebrides.
980 AD Norse ruler Olaf
Cuarán, dies on pilgrimage in Iona
- a Christian, therefore.
986 AD The Annals of Ulster
record: 'The Danes arrived on the coast of
Dal Riata, with three ships, and seven
score of them were tortured and others
sold. Iona
was plundered by the Danes on Christmas
night, and they killed the abbot and
fifteen of the elders of the
monastery.
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