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expulsion in 945. In the same year, the Irish Annals 
record the expulsion of Blacaire from Dublin, and the 
succession of Amlaib Cuaran ; and in 946 and 947 he is 
noticed again. In 948, Blacaire takes his place in Dublin^ 
and our Chronicles say, "Anlaf Cwiran came to N^orthum- 
berland.'* In 951, he was driven out by the Northum- 
brians, and Eric, son of Harold Blaatand, chosen in his 
stead. In our Chronicles he is mentioned no more; in 
the Irish Annals, as Amlaib Cuaran, he appears -in 953 
and 970, as Amlaoib mac Sitriocc in 964, 977, and 981, as 
Amlaoib, simply, in 962, 967, 969, 978, and 980, and as 
Amlaoib mac Gofrad (evidently a mistake) in 956. The 
notice of the year 981 is very interesting: Amlaoib, son of 
Siotriocc, chief lord of the foreigners of At Cliat, went to I 
(lona) on his pilgrimage, and he died there after penance 
and a good life." 
Here, then, we have three Olafs, all kings of the Danes of 
Ireland, all connected with the history of Britain; the first, 
an invader of Britain in 866-7, and 870-1, probably died in 
Britain before 873 ; the second led an expedition to England 
in 937, returned immediately to Ireland, and, after two years 
there, departed, and died at Tiningham in 941; the third 
reigned in Dublin for a year, in Northumbria for three years 
more (940 to 943), recovered his kingdom and was driven out 
again in 945, reigned again in Northumbria from 948 to 951, 
and thenceforward in Dublin until 980, when he retired to 
lona, and there ended his life. It does not appear that the 
second ever reigned in Northumbria, and the scene of his 
death is so remote from Leeds, that his claim to this monu- 
ment may be at once dismissed. It cannot be, as I once 
supposed, a monument of the third, for he died at lona ; but 
it may have been erected by him to the memory of a friend 
or relative, and the Annals of Clonmacnoise record the death, 
in war with Eadmund, of a king of the Danes at York, who 
