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Battle of Clontarf
Clontarf · Dublin Bay · Ireland
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
On 23 April 1014, the High King Brian Boru's forces defeated a Norse-Irish alliance led by Sigtrygg Silkbeard of Dublin and Máel Mórda of Leinster at Clontarf near Dublin. Brian was killed in the aftermath, making it a costly, near-pyrrhic victory that ended the major Viking threat to Irish kingship.
Belligerents2
- Munster-led Irish coalition (Brian Boru)
- Norse-Irish alliance (Dublin and Leinster)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Clontarf
- Britannica: Battle of Clontarf
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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