86 Mr. DowNES on the Norse Geography/ of Ancient Ireland. 



Danish ore, as in Elsinore), be the correct reading, Lindis might be found in 

 Lindsay, the northern part of Lincolnshire, did not the context almost directly 

 point to Ireland. Olaus Wormius assigns as the scene of conflict an island 

 on the Irish coast, and the presumption of the insular nature of the district in- 

 tended is favoured by a different reading, eyju, suggested by Arni Magnusson, 

 the founder of the Arna-Magnaean Commission, and perhaps the most consum- 

 mate Icelandic scholar that has ever existed. If the opinion of these distin- 

 guished authorities be well-grounded, the locality in question may be the island 

 of Lamhay, laid down on Ptolemy's map as Limnos and Limpnos, forms not 

 unlike the Norse Lindis, to which another form, Linos, bears a still stronger 

 resemblance. This etymological conjecture seems also to admit of geographical 

 support. In this part of the poem there appears to be a local progression. The 

 naval battle-fields, mentioned in immediate connexion with Lindis-Eyri, are off 

 the Scottish islands of Sky and Isla, and the Welsh island of Anglesey : it is, 

 therefore, more natural to seek for Lindis-Eyri on the east coast of Ireland than 

 on the east coast of England. Indeed, the achievements of Lodbroc on the 

 coasts of Northumberland and Norway are alluded to in an earlier part of the 

 poem ; and the distinguished editor, Professor Rafn, himself is in favour of the 

 Irish hypothesis. 



Of our estuaries, but three are named on the Map. On the north-west coast 

 appears Jolduhlaup [Jollduhlaup'], which is variously stated to be three, four, 

 five, or eight days' sail from Iceland. "The name," says the English Essay, 

 " signifies the run or breaking of waves, a designation applicable to no other 

 place within the limits specified than Lough Swilly." I have elsewhere met 

 with the assertion, that JoUduhlaup is a translation of the Irish name of the 

 lough, which, however, is not adduced. It may be reasonably doubted that the 

 locality here assigned to JoUduhlaup is the real one ; and it is certain that Lough 

 Swilly possesses no Irish name, which would admit of the above interpretation. 

 In Olave Tryggvason's Saga this locality is expressly stated to be in Ireland, 

 and distant five days' sail from Reykjanes, in the south of Iceland. 



The site of Ulfreksjjor^r or XJlfkelsfjoY^r, Ulfrek's or Ulf kel's Firth, as the 

 Danish writer admits, cannot be ascertained, nor even with certainty referred to 

 Ireland. The Sagas mention a battle fought, in 1018, between an Irish king, 

 named Konofogr, supposed by Suhm to be Conochar O'Melachlin, king of 



