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Principality of the IJles. 253
ritories, as reJated above, and was likewife ftiipt
in a fhort time of the dominions he had acquired
in Ireland. We learn from the annals of that king-
dom, thsLiDermil nan gaul and his i'on-in-Iavv, the
famous Earl of Pembroke, took Dubhn, the capi-
tal of the dominions of the Eailerlings, in the
year 1170*, and that the troops fent fiom Man to
recover it, next year, were lotaily defeated, and
their leaders llain.
GOD REDdkd in the year 1 1 87, during the
winter feafon, and his body was in the following
fummer conveyed to I-cohn-cille f. It has been
obferved already, that this King mud very proba-
bly be one of thefe Norwegian Kings, who ac-
cording to the Scottilh hiflorians, he buried in
lona.
O LAVE, furnamed the Black, the only legi-
timate fon left by Godred, had been declared
heir by his father, and by the pope's legate: but
as he was too young to affume the rtins of govern-
ment, the people of Man made his natural brother
Reginald King in his ftead. We are told by the
hiftorians of Norway, \\\2i\. Reginald Vi2i^ the moll
famous warrior in the Weftern parts of Europe,
during his time \. It had been the pradice of
Ibme famous pirates among the old Normans to
live for three years without entering under the
roof of a houfe which emmitted rt/ryywoAfi?. Re-
ginald had conformed himf.tlf to that cuftom, and
became of courfe capabl-^ of fullaii ing hardfliips
of every kind. He prudently lived upon good
* Ware's Ant. oFIrel chap. 24.
f Chron. Man. ad ann 1187.
j Tortiti Orcades, p. 146.
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