Penrith Hoard
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The Penrith Hoard is a dispersed hoard of 10th century silver penannular brooches found at Flusco Pike, Newbiggin Moor, near Penrith in Cumbria, and now in the British Museum in London. The largest "t
Brooches found in 1830 (largest) and 1989
The "brambled" terminal of the largest brooch in the main picture.
Penannular brooch with "gripping beasts" connecting the ring to the terminals, and a runic futhark scratched on the reverse of the hoop.
NMS Hunterston Brooch 1
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
Penrith Hoard
…that year "the kings of Strathclyde and Scotland came south to Penrith to pay homage to Athelstan". Also in the area with his army was the troublesome Norse-Gael king of Dublin, Gofraid ua Ímair, or Gothfrith. Athelstan made the kings, who had apparently been associating with pagan Vikings like Gothrith, renounce…
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.