According to the Latin life of a Welsh saint, Orcadian fleets had been used by an eleventh-century Welsh ruler on his raids in other parts of Wales. The date of the Life of St Gwynllyw’s composition is unknown, perhaps the early twelfth century or later; John Reuben Davies suggests 1156.1¹ The Life of St Gwynllyw relates that a king Gruffudd nauigauit ad Orcades insulas ‘sailed to the Orkney Islands’ and gathered twenty-four ships there that plunder along the river Usk, including the saint’s church, and begin ad Orcades insulas et ad Hiberniam remeare (‘to return to the Orkney Islands and to Ireland’).2² This supposed brief alliance is significant as perhaps the only piece of evidence for direct interactions between medieval Welsh kings and the earldom of Orkney.

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可能的十一世纪威尔士－奥卡迪联盟

根据威尔士圣徒的拉丁生活，十一世纪的威尔士统治者在威尔士其他地区的突袭中曾使用过Orcadian舰队。《圣格温列夫生平》的创作日期尚不清楚，也许是在十二世纪初或更晚。约翰·鲁本·戴维斯（John Reuben Davies）提出建议1156.1 ¹圣格温吕夫一生中，格鲁夫·纳伊（Gaufudd nauigauit）国王将Orcades的insulas击沉到“奥克尼群岛”，并在那里聚集了二十四艘沿着Usk河掠夺的船只，包括圣人的教堂，并开始了Orcades的活动。 insulas等广告Hiberniam remeare（'返回到奥克尼群岛和爱尔兰）。2 ² 所谓的短暂联盟意义重大，也许是中世纪威尔士国王与奥克尼郡伯爵之间直接互动的唯一证据。