TY - BOOK AU - Sheane,Michael TI - Ulster in the Viking Age SN - 9780722340851 (pbk.) : AV - DA990.U46 U1 - 941.601 SHE PY - 2011/// CY - Ilfracombe PB - Arthur H. Stockwell KW - Vikings KW - Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) KW - Civilization, Viking KW - History KW - ukslc KW - Northern Ireland KW - thema KW - c 1000 CE to c 1500 KW - European history N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1.The viking menace -- 2.Viking intentions -- 3.How the Ulstermen lived -- 4.Armagh -- 5.Bards -- 6.Viking gifts -- 7.Norse life in Ulster -- 8.An age of transformation -- 9.Olaf of the shoes -- 10.Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf -- 11.Brian Boru and the aftermath of Clontarf -- 12.The vikings in Scotland and abroad N2 - This title tells how, loaded with plunder, the dragon-headed longships swept across the waves for home. Behind them Rathlin Island, five miles off the Ulster coast, was ablaze, its monastery desecrated, its monks terrorized and its precious illuminated manuscripts destroyed ER -