Dunmore Cave is a Cave System in County Kilkenny, Ireland, Formed Over Millions of Years by Glacial Meltwater Chemically Dissolving the Permeable Lower Carboniferous Limestone.Image Credit : iStock
Posted on 03/14/2023 6:39:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The cave is one of Ireland's largest natural caves, running for around 402 metres to a depth of 46 metres...
The earliest historical reference to the cave is in the Trecheng Breth Féne "A Triad of Judgments of the Irish", more widely known as "The Triads of Ireland". The Triads are a series of manuscripts that date from the 14th to the 19th century AD, describing Dunmore Cave (written as "Dearc Fearna") as one of "the three darkest places in Ireland".
This may be in reference to events in the "Annals of the Four Masters", a chronicle of medieval Irish history compiled between 1632 and 1636. The Annals record Dunmore Cave as being the site of a great Viking massacre during the year 10th century AD.
According to the text, Gofraid ua Ímair, a Hiberno-Scandinavian and Viking leader of Dublin, "demolished and plundered Dearc Fearna (Dunmore Cave), where one thousand persons were killed in this year as is stated in the quatrain: Nine hundred years without sorrow, twenty-eight, it has been proved, ‘Since Christ came to our relief, to the plundering of Dearc-Fearna."
Archaeological evidence is unable to reliably confirm the events described in the Annals, however, large quantities of human bones have been recovered from the cave interior during an excavation in 1869. In 1973, archaeologists found further remains of 19 adults and 25 children, in addition to an associated hoard of silver coins dated to around AD 930.
According to one interpretation by archaeologist, Neil Jackman, the Vikings found a group of villagers taking shelter in the cave. Unable to force them out for capture, they lit large fires at the cave entrance that deprived them of oxygen. This resulted in the villagers slowly suffocating to death.
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Dunmore Cave is a Cave System in County Kilkenny, Ireland, Formed Over Millions of Years by Glacial Meltwater Chemically Dissolving the Permeable Lower Carboniferous Limestone.Image Credit : iStock
Looks to me like the Scandinavian countries owe the Irish reparations.
And so do the British. But that’s another story.
“Unable to force them out for capture, they lit large fires at the cave entrance that deprived them of oxygen...slowly suffocating to death.”
Nice guys, those Vikings. How could big, strong, fierce, well-armed Vikings not force a bunch of farmers and villagers out of the cave?
There’s been an agenda afoot in recent years to claim that, hey, they weren’t such a bad lot.
The Scandinavians are in the process of committing cultural and genetic suicide, cut ‘em some slack.
Oh, and since Scandinavian DNA will show up in any British person or someone with that ancestry, it’s really money they owe to themselves.
This report is going to go a long way toward rehabilitating their reputation, huh?
Heh... probably lead to more denial that there’s any evidence that a documented event did in fact happen.
A dominant force isn’t always interested in taking any losses when they don’t have to.
I would think there would be great value in capturing and enslaving them, especially the women and girls. That lust would outweigh the danger.
The warriors there probably knew best what the situation was.
What? We can’t Monday-Morning-Quarterback from a millennia away? What’s the fun of not doing that?
“during the year 10th century AD”
That was a loooong year.
:^)
Massacres worked both ways with Vikings.
The Frisians really butchered the Vikings like there was no tomorrow.
https://frisiacoasttrail.blog/2021/02/21/frisia-a-viking-graveyard/
“Looks to me like the Scandinavian countries owe the Irish reparations.”
Ok, but Ireland owes the Scandinavians a few hundred years of Danegeld payments, since they haven’t been raiding them for some centuries. So once Ireland pays up, then the Scandinavians can pay the reparations :P
> Ireland owes the Scandinavians a few hundred years of Danegeld payments <
Ha, you’re right. A contract is a contract.
International politics sure is complicated stuff.
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