Turgesius

He is said to have been the son of the Norwegian king. He became known through forays into Ireland and the UK. He is equated with the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok who plundered Paris in the year 845. Turgesius died, according to the Annals of Ulster in 845 Sometimes he is also regarded as the founder of Dublin, but this is Olaf the White in the year 841 was.

Whether Turgesius was in Ireland in the year 820, is unsecured. From the year 832, he was the leader of a large fleet, the 13 years raids took, where they penetrated on the rivers Boyne, Liffey and Shannon into the hinterland and monasteries plundered. That this must include the Irish bishopric in Armagh should have heard a legend should be.

The Norsemen ( gäl. Lochlonnaigh - people from the land of lakes) had plundered in the year 795 the monastery on Lambay near Dublin Iceland and 832 set up a winter base on the Liffey Estuary. With Woodstown near Waterford was a settlement that is considered by some archaeologists to be the oldest in Ireland. So Turgesius had probably naval bases from which he could make raids in Ireland and Wales. Notorious are its advance on the Shannon and his raid on the monastery of Clonmacnoise, according to the annals in 842, and to the nearby monasteries Clonfert ( Cluain Fearta of Breanainn ), Terry Glass ( Tir as Ghlas ) and Lorrha. On an island in Lough Ree (Loch Rihb ) near Athlone, he founded, according to Geoffrey Keating, a Dun and a fort (possibly Athlunkard ). Here and in Lough Lene (also Lane ) in the neighboring ( County Westmeath ), where the island Turgesius Iceland bears his name, he should have bases (presumably only in winter) entertained.

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