# Talk:Ascall mac Ragnaill

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)
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)

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)