The Pillaging Of Ireland
By PEGGY MOEN HOWTH, Ireland, AD 821 — The Vikings captured “a great booty of women” here that year, according to the Annals of Ulster, condemning them to a lifetime of slavery. Howth is a peninsula east of Dublin, and it is easy to see on a map what a clear shot the Vikings had. It is less easy to imagine the horrors the ill-fated women experienced as the barbarians tore them away from their homes and families. What followed for them, however, was far worse. Shane Hegarty wrote for The Irish Times April 10, 2014 that the Vikings “became part of an extraordinary trading network that stretched north to Scandinavia and south to Africa. It meant that being grabbed…Continue Reading