Uí Ímairの英語

The Uí Ím(h)air (help·info) (Irish pronunciation: [iː 'iːvˠaɾʲ]), or Dynasty of Ivar, were an enormous royal and imperial Norse dynasty who ruled Northern England, the Irish Sea region and Kingdom of Dublin, and the western coast of Scotland, including the Hebrides, from the mid 9th century, losing control of the first in the mid 10th, but the rest at variously disputed times, depending on whom may be counted among their descendants, which has proven a difficult task for scholars to determine because reliable pedigrees do not survive. Additionally, for between three and four decades they were probably overkings of the Kingdom of Scotland itself, distinct from the Kingdom of Strathclyde of which they may also have been overkings, and later briefly the Irish province of Munster, dominated from Waterford, and later still, briefly the English kingdom of Mercia. In the west of Ireland, the dynasty also supplied at least two kings of Limerick, from which they may have attempted to conquer Munster again. On the female side two members are styled Queens of Ireland in the Irish annals (each was also Queen of Mide and Queen of Munster respectively), while another was Queen of Leinster (and Osraige), and in the Norse sources another was Queen consort of Norway. Finally another may have been Queen of Brega. The name is Old Irish, and means "grandchildren" or Descendants of Ivar, but the dynasty include their progenitor and his sons. Ivar is described in the Irish annals as the brother of Amlaíb Conung and Auisle, and his obituary is recorded in the Annals of Ulster under the year 873, reading Imhar, rex Nordmannorum totius Hibernie & Brittanie, uitam finiuit., or "Ivar, king of all the Norse of Ireland and Britain, ended his life". He may have been the inspiration for the legendary Ivar Ragnarsson, one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army. A positive association would mean Uí Ímair dynasts were also Overkings of East Anglia.