Associate Professor Alison Downham Moore of Sydney University has made proposals...

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Associate Professor Alison Downham Moore of Sydney University has made proposals reassessing the person of Eirik Bloodaxe, proposing that Eiríkr, King of York from 947–948 and 952–5, was a ruler (warlord would be more appropriate) in the Viking Kingdom of the Isles (Hebrides, Islands of the Firth of Clyde & the Isle of Man); but questions that this Eiríkr is the same character as Eric Bloodaxe. Downham argued that Eric of the Kingdom of the Isles was of the Uí Ímair Dynasty, rather than a son of Harald Fairhair (Harald Hårfagre Halfdansson (c. 0850 - c. 0933).

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