In the twelfth-century Cogadh Gáedhel re Gallaibh Brian’s second wife Gormlaith, daughter of the king of Leinster, is given a colourful role in the fatal march towards Clontarf and her husband’s murder. Geoffrey Keating picked up this theme in Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, where Gormlaith is pictured as rebuking her brother Máelmórda, who had inherited ... Read more
