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regarded by Ivar as a traitor to the charge which,
like Ecgberht in Northumbria, he may have undertaken
under the Danes. We have no mention of his
father, or pedigree connecting him with native kings.
But at least he fell in defence of his country and
faith, and earned the crown of martyrdom. His feast
day fixes the date as November 20, 870.
From that moment forth, Ivar too disappears from
England. He is usually represented as the chief
actor in the death of St. Eadmund, but in all subsequent
operations he is not named. The Annals of
Ulster, which often antedate by a year, mention under
869 "The siege of Alclyde (Dumbarton) by the Northmen:
Olaf and Ivar, two kings of the Northmen,
besieged that stronghold, and at the end of four months
they stormed and sacked it ;" and then, next year,
that Olaf (the White) and Ivar came again to Dublin
from Scotland "and a very great spoil of captives,
English, British and Pictish, was carried away to
Ireland ;" and finally, under 872, "Ivar, King of
the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain, ended his
life." There can be no doubt that this Ivar is
the man who led the army in England : he would
not otherwise have been described as king of the
Northmen of all Ireland and Britain ; nor would he
have been able to carry to Dublin "a very great spoil
of English captives" as well as of British (or Strathclyde
Welsh) who were taken at the sack of Dumbarton,
the chief stronghold of Strathclyde. It is curious to
find him acting with Olaf the White, a Norseman ;
but he had been with him before in 858 and 862, and
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