Talk:Ascall mac Ragnaill

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November 3, 2014	Good article nominee	Listed

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the last Norse–Gaelic King of Dublin, Ascall mac Ragnaill, was captured and executed in 1171 after failing to reclaim his kingdom from the English?

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Objectivity and bias in the sources

I'm puzzled by the following opposite characterisations of the Irish Annals as "objective" and contrasted with the "unreliable writings of Giraldus Cambrensis". In what sense and who made the judgement that the former is objective? Why is the latter dismissed as unreliable?

Mojowiha (talk) 07:03, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fair point. The annalistic records are much more likely to be correct than Geralds flowery account IMO, but as long as we haven't got secondary scholarly sources backing this those words are better left out. Finn Rindahl (talk) 07:49, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Transcription of MS image

I'm uncertain about the transcription of Ascall's name given below the manuscript image: the name is given as "Hasculphus", but from what I can see the image actually shows "Haschulfus"—I'm not a mediaeval palaeographer, so I may be missing a reason why it's transcribed that way? Gabrielbodard (talk) 07:10, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]