war against the Dál Cais". As to why Keating decided to place the cause of hostilities with Gormlaith is up for some debate. One scholar, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail suggested that he was influenced by Meredith Hamner's Chronicle of Ireland published in 1633, where the cause of Clontarf is attributed not to Gormlaith, but an anonymous "merchant's wife". Keating's work would in turn influence a slightly later text of the same period, Cath Cluana Tarbh. Only one version of this work contains a reference to Gormlaith, but the depiction is derived from Keating. See also Mongfind References Further reading Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis; Lines 175–1, 239-2 External links The Story of Gormlaith: Jealous Divorcee or Literary Victim? A History of Vikings in Scotland Events leading up to the Battle of Clontarf Njal's Saga Gormflaith's marriages and families online Gormflaith was a Naas woman Who was Gormlaith's mother? A detective story, by Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin. In: Lost and Found II – Rediscovering Ireland's past. (Ireland, 2009), pp. 83–94. 'Tales of three Gormlaiths in early Irish literature by Máire Ní Mhaonaigh. In Ériu 52 (2002), pp. 1–24. Viking Age Queens and Identity by Shannon Lewis-Simpson. In The Viking Age: Ireland and the West, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress (Cork, 2005), John Sheehan & Donnchadh Ó Corráin (eds), pp. 217–226. Gormflaith, the Queen by L. M. McCraith. In: Romance of Irish Heroines (Dublin) pp. 42–50. 'Gormflaith and the Northmen of Dublin by G. C. Stacpoole. In: Dublin Historical Record, Vol. XX, No. 1, December (1964) pp. 4–18. 'Gormlaith ingen Murchada ben Briain by Catherine Swift. From: Brian Boru Lecture Series, Mary Immaculate College. Contextualizing Gormlaith: Portrayals and Perceptions of a Medieval Irish Queen by Christina Wade. Unpublished M.Phil. Dissertation, 2012. Queen Gormlaith, Brian Boru and the Northmen of Dublin by Howard B Clarke, Dublin City Lunchtime Lecture Series, 8 April 2014. "Gormflaith - A Naas Woman?" by James Durney, Co. Kildare Online Electronic Journal, 16 February 2008. "A Game of Thrones: Leinster v Munster at the Battle of Clontarf" by James Durney, Co. Kildare Online Electronic Journal, 27 March 2014, Irish royal consorts 960 births 1030 deaths 10th-century Irish people 11th-century Irish people 11th-century Irish women Irish princesses 10th-century Irish women Remarried royal consorts Viking Age women People from County Kildare Gaels