Battle of Strangford Lough

When

877

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

54.50° N, 5.60° W

Description

battle fought in Ireland in 877

Placed at the lake its title names, Strangford Lough.

Battle fought in Ireland in 877

The Battle of Strangford Lough was fought in 877 between two groups of rival Vikings described by the Irish Annals as the "fair heathens" and the "dark heathens". The Annals of Ulster describe "Albann", a figure usually identified with Halfdan Ragnarsson, a leader of the Great Heathen Army, as king of the "dark heathens", and Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib identifies Bárid mac Ímair, King of Dublin as the leader of the "fai…

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Strangford Lough: King Halfdan I leaves for Ireland, in an attempt to claim the Kingdom of Dublin from his rival Bárid mac Ímair”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Сражение при Странгфорд-Лохе, в котором войско дублинских викингов под командованием Барда нанесло поражение войску скандинавов во главе с королём Йорвика…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page