wanton and rebellious. But they could not possibly have held out, had not the conquest ensuing determined both their contentions. The meane while they waxed Lords of Havens and Bur-Townes, housed their souldiours, and oftentimes skirmished tooke their fortune, crept no higher, onely a memory is left of their field in Clantarfe,[1] where diverse noble Irish men were slayne, that lye buryed before the Crosse of Kilmaynam.
And it is to be noted, that these are the Danes, which people (then Pagans) wasted England, and after that, France. From whence they came againe into England with William the Conquerour.[2] So that Ostomani, Normans, Easterlings, Danes, and Norway-men are in effect the same, and as it appeareth by conference of times and Chronicles, much about one time or season, vexed the French men, subdued the English, and multiplyed in Ireland.[3] But in the yeare of Christ 1095. perceiving great envy to lurke in the distinction of Easterlings and Irishe utterly west, and because they were simply Northerne, notEasterne, and because they magnified themselves in the late conquest of their Countreymen, who from Normandy flourished now in the Realme of England, they would in any wise bee called and counted Normans.
