Olaf (Amlaib) of The Isles^[1]

- 1014

• Name	Olaf (Amlaib) of The Isles
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Apr 1014	Battle Of Clontarf
  Person ID	I146750	First tree
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2013

  
  

  Family ID

  F23472

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• Notes

  The Kings of the Isle of Man compiled by Stewart Baldwin athttp://www.rootsweb.com/~medieval/man.htm "Note 2: AU, in listing those who fell at the famous Battle of Clontarfon 23 April 1014, names a certain Olaf son of Lagman ("Amlaim m.Laghmaind") as one of the Norse leaders who fell. CGG, written in theearly twelfth century, also mentions the same individual, where thedifferent manuscripts call him Amlaf Lagman son of Goffraidh, Amlaf sonof Lagmann son of Gofraidh, or Amhlaibh son of Laghman. Given thetestimony of the other witnesses (and AU in particular), it would seemthat the first of these manuscripts accidently left out a "son of", andthat the Amlaib who was killed at Clontarf was son of Lagman, son ofGoffraid. William of Jumiéges, in describing the events just after thedeath of king Svein Forkbeard of Denmark (1014), states that his son Cnutsought support from two kings, Lacman of the Swedes and Olaf of theNorsemen (i.e., of Norway) ["... Lacman equidem Suauorum et OlauumNoricorum" - See GND, vol. 2, pp. 19-27]. Since no king named Lacman wasruling in Sweden at the time, the reasonable suggestion has been madethat "Suauorum" was a scribal slip for "Sudrorum", and that Lacman wasking of the Hebrides (i.e., "the Isles"), and this seems like a safeemendation, given the evidence of AU and CGH ."

  
  

• Sources

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