Gallowglass
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The gallowglasses were a class of elite mercenary warriors in Ireland, who were originally members of Norse-Gaelic clans from the Scottish Highlands prior to arriving in Ireland between the mid-13th c
15th-century depiction of gallowglasses on Felim O'Connor's tomb
Irish gallowglass and kern. Drawing by Albrecht Dürer, 1521. This is now thought to have been derived from a 1518 written account by Laurent Vital, rather than a drawing from life.
Norse–Gaels
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The Norse–Gaels were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture. They emerged in the Viking Age, when Vikings who settled in Ireland and in Scotland became Gaelicised and intermarried wit
Gallowglass
…or galloglas; from Irish gallóglach, meaning "foreign warrior") were a class of elite mercenary warriors in Ireland, who were originally members of Norse-Gaelic clans from the Scottish Highlands prior to arriving in Ireland between the mid-13th century and late 16th century. Despite sharing a common background…
Skuldelev II, a Viking warship built in the Norse–Gaelic community of Dublin (c. 1042)
R. R. McIan's impression of a Norse–Gaelic ruler of Clan MacDonald, Lord of the Isles
In 1873, Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland shows an Irishman as an example of the Nordic type.