When Sea Hammer had been built, a length of rope was sandwiched between the planks to keep the water out, and it still did its job, mostly. With a hammer in one hand and a caulking iron, like a dull chisel, in the other, Thorgrim was gently tapping a bit of tarred twine between two of the planks where water insisted on seeping through. He was on his back, the shingle of the beach starting to dig through his tunic, and halfway under the larboard side of the ship, which was pulled up on the beach and resting on its starboard side. He could see nothing but the dark planks of his ship Sea Hammer, a foot away from his face. Thorgrim Night Wolf was not looking out to sea. That was how far away the ships were when Gudrid spotted them. But that morning, despite the hovering threat of rotten weather, a man could see two or three miles in any direction. That was high enough for a watchman standing there to see trouble coming from a good distance, at least when the land was not under a blanket of gray fog and rain, which was about half the time. The wall had been built up to a height of fifteen feet. Gudrid was standing on the top of the earthen wall that surrounded the makeshift longphort at a place that the Irish called Loch Garman, though Thorgrim Night Wolf called it Waesfiord, which meant inlet of the mudflats. Gudrid saw them because he was the one charged with looking out, a dull task that was shared by all, save for those with eyesight so poor that it was pointless to put them to that job. For that reason, the ships were already through the harbor entrance and making for the longphort when he spotted them. The morning was well on, a gray and uninviting morning, and the view to the horizon was limited, with the far end of the wide harbor just on the edge of visible. Ulster Journal of Archaeology, THE GRAVE OF MAGNUS BARELEGS FINBAR McCORMICK School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast Magnus Barelegs, king of Norway, was killed by the Ulaid in 1103 as he began his journey home after a military campaign in Ireland.It was Gudrid who saw the ships first.
Documentary sources indicate that this happened somewhere near Downpatrick and a mound near the former shore of Horse Island is traditionally identified as his grave. The evidence for the identification is reviewed. INTRODUCTION The first Ordnance Survey 6” map of Downpatrick, Co Down (1834), shows a large area of marshland lying to the south of the cathedral, the site of the early monastery of Downpatrick and traditional burial place of St Patrick. To the south-west of this a large peninsula juts out into the marsh (Fig 1). A map of the area of 1755 (Fig 2) shows that this was formerly an island, latterly known as Horse Island, at the edge of a tidal inlet of Strangford Lough. In 1755 the island was located next to the land and would have been accessible on foot at low tide.
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A small sub-rectangular enclosure is shown on the western side of Horse Island on the 1838 map but is not 102 marked as an antiquity. By the time the map had been revised in 1859 a railway track had been built through the area and the enclosure was now labelled an ‘Intrenchment’ and a nearby mound was named as Magnus’ Grave (Fig 3). MAGNUS BARELEGS IN IRELAND The mound is now regarded as being the burial place of Magnus Barelegs (Óláfsson), king of Norway, whom the annals record as having been killed by the Ulaid in 1103. Magnus III became king of Norway when his father died in 1090 and set about trying to regain lands around the Irish Sea and Scotland that had formerly been under the sway of Norway. His adventures were recorded by the Icelandic chronicler Snorri Sturlason (1179–1241) in the Heimskringla and several other sources. His campaigns in the West and death in Ireland have been discussed by Power (1986 1993 1994). In 1098 Magnus captured Orkney, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man before returning to Norway.
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In 1102 he set out for Ireland at a time when Muirchertach Ua Briain, having consolidated his power in much of the south of Ireland, was in the process of trying to subdue Domnall Mac Lochlainn and the Cenél nEógain of mid-Ulster.
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