Identifier: irelandscrownoft00ryan (find matches)
Title: Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel ..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ryan, Frank J. comp Holden, P. F., joint comp
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Publisher: (Chicago, M. A. Donohue & co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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sword on the breast of the prostrateNorthman, and, leaning on it, plunged it through his body.While stooping, however, for this purpose, Anrud contrived toinflict on him a mortal wound with a dagger, and Morrogh fellin the arms of victory. According to other accounts, Morroghwas in the act of stooping to relieve an enemj^ when he receivedfrom him his death wound. This disaster did not have the ef-fect of turning the fortune of the day, for the Danes andtheir allies were in a state of utter disorder, and along theirwhole line had commenced to fly towards the city or to theirships. They plunged into the Tolka at a time, we may con-clude, when the river was swollen with the tide, so that greatnumbers were drowned. The body of young Turlough wasfound after the battle at the weir of Olontarf, with his handsentangled in the hair of a Dane whom he had grappled with inthe pursuit. But the chief tragedy of the day remains to be related.Brodar, the pirate admiral, who commanded in the point of
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DEATH OF KING BRIAN BORU,Good Friday,- 1014. Ancient Ireland 79 the Danish lines remotest from tlio city, seeing the rout gen-eral, was making liis way through some tliickets with only afew attendants, when he came upon the tent of Brian Borumha,left at that moment without his guards. The fierce Norsemanrushed in and found the aged monarch at prayer before thecrucifix, which he had that morning held up to the view of histroops, and attended only by his page. Yet, Brian had timeto seize his arms, and died sword in hand. The Irish accountssay that the king killed Brodar, and was only overcome bynumbers; but the Danish version in the Niala Saga is moreprobable, and in this Brodar is represented as holding up hisreeking sword, and crying: Let it be proclaimed from manto man that Brian has been slain by Brodar. It is added,on the same authority, that the ferocious pirate was thenhemmed in by Brians returned guards and captured alive,and that he was hung from a tree, and continued to rage l

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