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tus, in Dublin, and Christ Church was founded by Sitric Mae 
Olaf, King of Dublin. The Ostmen continued to have bishops 
in Dublin until the English invasion; they had also bishops 
in Waterford and Limerick. ‘The Bishops of Dublin and Wa- 
terford were, as an effect of the connexion between the Ost- 
men and their relatives in Kent, consecrated by the Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury; and that, perhaps, may have been a 
reason why the Archbishop of Armagh continued to hold the 
station of Lord Primate of all Ireland, rather than the Arch- 
bishop of Dublin, the metropolis of the country. There is no 
doubt but that the Norsemen possessed considerable influence 
in the towns above-mentioned, and in Cork, until the English 
invasion. In the year 1095, Godfrid Meranagh, King of the 
Ostmen, had ninety ships in the harbour of Dublin; and men- 
tion ismadein the Irish annals of a meeting at Athboy of Tlactga, 
in the year 1167, when as many as 1000 of the Danes of Dublin 
were present. Both in Dublin and Cork they resisted the 
English; and in the year 1171, more than a century and a half 
after the battle of Clontarf, the Norse Prince of Dublin, Has- 
culf, who was expelled by the English Earl Strongbow, returned 
to Dublin with sixty ships, and tried to regain possession of 
the city. Even in the year 1263, the Irish applied to the 
Norse king, Hakon Hakonson, then on an expedition to the 
western islands of Scotland, to assist them against the English, 
which it is not probable they would have done, if there had not 
been remnants of the Ostmen in Ireland. Giraldus Cambrensis 
mentions a remarkable fact, that after the occupation of Dub- 
lin by the English, 400 of the Danes of Dublin were taken 
into the English army. One may well ask, how could the 
Ostmen have kept up their influence in the towns of Ireland 
after the expeditions from Scandinavia to Ireland had ceased, 
if they had not carried on trade and commerce, and been of 
great use to the Irish, whose daughters the Ostmen very often 
married ? 
Partiality might be imputed to Mr. Worsaae, because he 
