Click on the map above to link to Ireland's History in Maps found at www.rootsweb.com Click on the map above to link to Ireland's History in Maps found at www.rootsweb.com a glimpse... "Bitter is the wind tonight. It tosses the oceans white hair. Tonight I fear not the fierce warriors of Norway. Coursing on the Irish sea." Poem from "The Irish Priscian manuscript of St. Gallen" 850 AD Picture from the illuminated manuscript "Miscellany on the Life of St. Edmund" 1130 AD
Drawn After The Quick - anonymous woodcut 15th century
From the Codice De Trajes manuscript 1547 AD