Ragnall ua Imair, grandson of Ivar the Boneless and leader of the Norse-Irish, seized York in 919 after defeating the Northumbrians at the second Battle of Corbridge. His seizure of Jorvik began the period of Norse-Irish kingship in York that would last, with interruptions, until Eric Bloodaxe's death in 954. It was the Norse-Irish rather than the original Great Heathen Army who dominated Jorvik in its later period.
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