the time when CuchuUin flourished, (" tempus hoc erat, quo vera 

 pax de ccelo descendit sub Augusto Caesare, jam Christo Domino 

 terras invisente,")* Frotho the first, a Danish King, invaded Ireland, 

 and after encountering much opposition as from a people more for- 

 midable in war ("6e//o ternbilior,")\ at length subdued and reduced 

 them to the Danish power; which expedition of Frotho is also 

 detailed by Meursius;^ a learned and laborious writer of the sixteenth 

 century ; and yet more particularly given by Monsieur Des Roches, 

 in his "Histoire de Dannemarc,"§ where the Irish leader is called 

 Cherwill. 



Other like piratic expeditions of the Danes, are said to have ha- 

 rassed Ireland immediately subsequent to these ; one led by Hiarnus 

 the son of Frotho the 3rd, another by Fridelevus the 2nd, and a third 

 in the time of his son, Frotho the 4th, which are all particularly detail- 

 ed, according to Dr. Campbell, || in the works of Heminguis Luniber- 

 gensis and Jonas Koldigensis ; but these authors were not accessible 

 to the writer of this Essay, who can only confirm the last expedition 

 in the days of Frotho the 4th, by the authorities of Saxo Gramma- 

 ticus, (lib, 6,**) and of Des Roches,-f -f who writes, that about A. D. 

 35, Frotho the 4th, or one of his generals, led an expedition into Ire- 

 land, where he vanquished a king called Uglet, and carried Dublin by 

 storm, A striking coincidence confirms this tradition, for it was by a 

 prince of the name of Lugad, that the Irish annalists say Cuchullin 

 was slain ; and a prince of the same name, Lugad, became King of 

 Ireland on the death of the before-mentioned Conary, about A. D. 46; 

 and further this very Lugad is recorded in the armals of Tigernach,]:| 



* Lib 1. c, 32. + Hist. Dan. p. 8. 



t See post, per. 1. sect. 5. || Strictures, p. 91. 



§ Vol. 1. p, 158. ft Hist, de Dannem, v. 1. p. 174. 



•* See post, per, 1. sect 5. Xt O'Conor, Rer. Hib. Script, v. 2. p. 23. 



