Talk:Muirchertach mac Néill

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Are there any records of this man having a daughter ?

The Icelandic "Laxdaela Saga" speak of a Irish King with a very similar name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.174.230.143 (talk) 22:17, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A good question, and one which isn't really answered (yet) by the articles on the various Muirchertachs. King Myr-whatever of the sagas would be ("based on", as they say in films) Muirchertach Ua Briain. There's a paper by Rosemary Power covers Muirchertach's doings with Magnus Barefoot from Saga Book XXIX (which can be downloaded here). There's another paper somewhere in a recent-ish Saga Book which deals more with the saga side of things, but I don't recall where or what it might be called. Angus McLellan (Talk) 00:33, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Different sagas, different Muirchertachs. The Myrkjartan of Laxdœla Saga, father of Melkorka (Mael Curcaigh) lived in the first half of the ninth century about the time of Muirchertach Mac Neill, and what's more, was actually identified as Muirchertach na Cochall Craicinn in [Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period http://www.archive.org/details/scandinavianrela00walsuoft] by A. Walsh (Talbot Press Unltd., Dublin 1922) p. 16. Morefaya2006 (talk) 12:51, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]