page_title: Cotter family
section_title: Ottir Dub
hierarchical_section_title: Cotter family / Ottar dynasty / Ottir Dub
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of a Viking ship engraved on a stone at Kirk Maughold, Isle of Man. The stone is sometimes called "Maughold IV" or "Hedin's Cross".
context_page_description: The Norse-Gaelic Cotter family of Ireland, was associated with County Cork and ancient Cork city. The family was also associated with the Isle of Man and the Hebrides.
  Evidence suggests an ultimately Norwegian origin of the name.
context_section_description: In 1014 a Norse-Gael leader called Ottir Dub (Óttar the Black), a possible descendant of Ottir Iarla, is recorded as fighting on the side of Sigtrygg Silkbeard the King of Dublin against Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, at the Battle of Clontarf. In the battle Ottir led a sub-division of the Norsemen of Dublin, who were under the overall command of Dubgall son of Amlaíb. The Annals of Ulster state: "...of the Foreigners there fell Dubgall son of Amlaíb, Sigurðr son of Hloðver jarl of the Orkneys, and Gilla Ciaráin son of Glún Iairn heir-designate of the Foreigners, and Ottir Dub and Suartgair and Donnchad ua Eruilb and Griséne and Luimne and Amlaíb son of Lagmann and Broðar who killed Brian, commander of the fleet of the Lochlannaig, and 6000 who were killed and drowned." In Cogadh Gaedhil re Gallaibh Ottir Dub is referred to as one of the four king's deputies (also translated as "petty kings") and admirals of the Vikings; as "king's deputies" they are likely to have been deputies to King Sigtrygg of Dublin.
caption: Norse ship engraved on the Hedin Cross, Isle of Man.
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