North Wales, Ireland and the Isles: the Insular Viking zone

This paper deals with the historical evidence for political ties between north Wales, Ireland (especially Dublin) and the Scottish Isles in the pre-twelfth century Viking Age. Selected aspects of the relationship in the eleventh century, already illuminated in various degrees by recent scholarship, are reviewed. The position before the eleventh century, which has received comparatively less attention of late, is here the subject of detailed study.