Ivor

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  • Ivar: the name of at least three Norse kings of Dublin
    • Ivar the Boneless (Ímar): Ivar I, the second Norse king of Dublin; he reigned from 856-873 alongside Olaf the White and his (Ivar's) brother Audgisl (co-regent from 863-867); he and Audgisl (also known as Auisle or Hásli) were reputedly sons of the legendary Danish warlord Ragnar Lodbrok; he is believed to have converted to Christianity, probably to appease the local Irish chieftains; he died in 873
    • Ivar the Younger: Ivar II, a grandson of Ivar the Boneless; he reigned in Dublin from 896-902; in 902, Cerball Mac Muirecáin Ó Fáeláin, the king of Leinster, and Máel Findia, the king of Brega, launched a devastating attack on the Norse settlement of Dublin; those Vikings who survived the onslaught were driven out – some fleeing to Chester in the northwest of England, others to the Loire valley in France (Welsh annals record the arrival in Wales of a group of Vikings led by a man called Hingamund or Ingimundr, who may have usurped Ivar’s throne shortly before the fall of Dublin)
    • Ivar Gamel Haraldsson: Ivar III, king of Dublin from 1038-1046; he was a nephew of Sitric Silkenbeard and a great-great-great-great-grandson of Ivar the Boneless; he was overthrown by a rebellion in 1046
    • Ivar of Waterford: in 994 the Norse king of Waterford, Ivar or Ímar, may have succeeded in making himself king of Dublin
    • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
    • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

Ivar Road: a street in Dublin near Arbour Hill