When the Irish annals describe Ímar and Amlaíb Conung as brothers, Hjardar and Vike claims that this has to be interpreted as a metaphor for "warrior brothers" or "brothers in arms". Dynasts The following list contains only members mentioned in the Irish annals and other reliable and semi-reliable sources, such as the Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib, and among those only the ones who can be placed in the pedigree with relative confidence. Thus it is by no means complete. Among recent developments in scholarship it has been argued that the historical king of Northumbria contributing to the character of Eric Bloodaxe was actually an Uí Ímair dynast. First proposed by James Henthorn Todd in 1867, and most recently considered by Alex Woolf and Clare Downham, it is possible the Uí Ímair were peculiar in that some early members, and possibly the entire known later dynasty, descended from the founder via the female line. After various authors. Birthdates are unknown. mac = son of; ingen = daughter of; ua = grandchild of; Ua (h)Ímair = surname (descendant of Ímar). Ímar/Ívar/Ivar/Ívarr (died 873) Bárid mac Ímair (died 881) Sichfrith mac Ímair (died 888) Sitriuc mac Ímair (died 896) ? mac/ingen Ímair, and/or among the above sons Amlaíb ua Ímair (died 896) Ímar ua Ímair (died 904) Ragnall ua Ímair (died 920/1) ? mac Ragnaill (died 942) Ímar (died 950)? probably Ímar of Waterford (died 1000) Gilla Pátraic mac Ímair (died 983) Ragnall mac Ímair (died 995) Donndubán mac Ímair (died 996) Ragnall mac Ímair II (died 1018) ? mac Ragnaill (died 1015) Ragnall mac Ragnaill (died 1035) Sihtric mac Ímair (died 1022) Sitric Cáech (died 927) Sichfrith mac Sitric (died 937) Ausle mac Sitric (died 937) Aralt mac Sitric (died 940) probably Maccus mac Arailt (died 984/7) probably Gofraid mac Arailt (died 989) Ragnall mac Gofraid (died 1005) Lagmann mac Gofraid (died ?) Amlaíb mac Lagmann (died 1014) ? Donnchadh mac Amlaíb (died 1014) Máel Muire ingen Gofraid (died ?) Gofraid mac Sitriuc (died 951) Amlaíb Cuarán (died 981) Ragnall mac Amlaíb (died 980) Glúniairn (died 989) Gilla Ciaráin mac Glúniairn (died 1014) Sitric? mac Glúniairn (fl. 1036) Aralt mac Amlaíb (died 999) Ímar mac Arailt (died 1054) Dubgall mac Amlaíb (died 1014) Ragnailt ingen Amlaíb (died ?) Máel Muire ingen Amlaíb (died 1021) Gytha ingen Amlaíb (died ?) Sigtrygg Silkbeard (died 1042) Artalach mac Sitric (died 999) Amlaíb mac Sitric I/II