Brodar mac Torcaill

Brodar mac Torcaill
King of Dublin
Died	1160
Dynasty	Meic Torcaill
Father	Torcall

Brodar mac Torcaill (died 1160) was a late twelfth century King of Dublin. He was a member of the Meic Torcaill, a substantial landholding kindred in the kingdom.^[1] His death in 1160, at the hands of the Meic Gilla Sechnaill of South Brega, is revealed by the Cottonian Annals, the Annals of the Four Masters, the Annals of Ulster, and the Annals of Tigernach.^[2]

Citations

1. Downham (2013) p. 165; Downham (2007) p. 39.
2. Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1160.12; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1160.12; Downham (2013) pp. 166, 178; The Annals of Ulster (2012) § 1160.5; The Annals in Cotton MS ... (2010) § 1160; The Annals of Tigernach (2010) § 1160.5; The Annals of Ulster (2008) § 1160.5; Downham (2007) pp. 40, 43 illus. 1; Annals of Tigernach (2005) § 1160.5; Duffy (1992) p. 125 n. 159.

References

Primary sources

• "Annals of the Four Masters". Corpus of Electronic Texts (3 December 2013 ed.). University College Cork. 2013a. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
• "Annals of the Four Masters". Corpus of Electronic Texts (16 December 2013 ed.). University College Cork. 2013b. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
• "Annals of Tigernach". Corpus of Electronic Texts (13 April 2005 ed.). University College Cork. 2005. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
• "The Annals in Cotton MS. Titus A. XXV". Corpus of Electronic Texts (13 February 2010 ed.). University College Cork. 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
• "The Annals of Tigernach". Corpus of Electronic Texts (2 November 2010 ed.). University College Cork. 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
• "The Annals of Ulster". Corpus of Electronic Texts (29 August 2008 ed.). University College Cork. 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
• "The Annals of Ulster". Corpus of Electronic Texts (15 August 2012 ed.). University College Cork. 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2014.

Secondary sources

• Downham, C (2007). "Living on the Edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the Twelfth Century". In Smith, BB; Taylor, S; Williams, G. West Over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300. The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400–1700 AD. Peoples, Economics and Cultures (series vol. 31). Leiden: Brill. pp. 33–52. ISBN 978 90 04 15893 1. ISSN 1569-1462.
• Downham, C (2013). "Living on the Edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the Twelfth Century". No Horns on Their Helmets? Essays on the Insular Viking-age. Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian Studies (series vol. 1). Aberdeen: Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies and The Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Aberdeen. pp. 157–178. ISBN 978-0-9557720-1-6. ISSN 2051-6509.
• Duffy, S (1992). "Irishmen and Islesmen in the Kingdoms of Dublin and Man, 1052–1171". Ériu (Royal Irish Academy). Vol. 43: 93–133. JSTOR 30007421.