INDEX
Wardship, grants of, 432
Ware, James, 24, 50
Waring, Abbot John, 326
Wars of the Roses, 162, 168
Waterford
commerce and, 509–511
settled by Vikings, 503
Watermills, 335
Weapons and weaponry, 511–513
Anglo-Norman period, 512–513
early medieval period, 511
late medieval period, 513
Viking/Hiberno-Norse period, 511–512
Welsh influence, 514–515
Western Déisi of Limerick, 121
Westropp, Thomas Johnson, 390
Wexford, established by Vikings, 385–386
White Pangur, 284
Wicklow, established by Vikings, 385
William of Windsor, 77, 459, 515–516
Windmills, 336
Wisdom texts
Gnomic, 516–518
Tecosca, 517
triads in, 452
Witchcraft and magic, 518–520
in daily practice, 519
in early Irish literature, 519
terminology, 518–519
witch persecution, 519
Wog an, John, 78
Women, 520–522
landownership in the laws, 520–521
in later middle ages, 521
legal capacity, 521
marriage and, 521
in sagas, 520
in saints’ lives, 520
as satirists, 417
Woodlands
during early medieval period, 523
as source of raw materials, 522–523
role in manorial economy of Anglo-Norman
Ireland, 523
Wood quay excavations, 220
Woodworking, 112
Written language, Irish contributions to, 423
Writing
anonymous, 338
French, 185–186
ogam script, 54, 205, 373
Wynchester, David, 81Y
Yellow Book of Lecan (Giolla-Íosa), 292
Yorkist army
defeat of, at Stoke-by-Newark, 176
Youghal
founding of, by Maurice fitz Gerald, 386Z
Zealotry, 163–164