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Molann roinnt scoláirí gur fianaise é seo lena trí phósfadh le Amhlaoibh Cuaran, Maol Seachnaill agus Brian Bóramha, ag teacht salach ar na hannála. Pléitear ach go háirithe bailíocht an phósta le Maol Seachnaill agus a colscaradh más fíor ó Bhrian Bóramha. Deir roinnt scoláirí gur páistí iad na "léimeanna", ní póstaí.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ní Dhonnchadha |first=Maire |editor=Angela Bourke |title=Gormlaith and Her Sisters c. 750-1400 |journal=Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing |year=2002 |volume= 4: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions |page=188}}</ref>
== MediaevalAn literary accountsmheánaois ==
''Tá Gormlaithan-cháil isar arguablyGhormlaith bestas knownucht foran herchuir portrayalsíos in the ''[[Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib]].,''<ref name="Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh">{{cite book |title=Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh |url=https://archive.org/details/cogadhgaedhelreg00todd|year=1867|publisher=Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer |location=Londain |editor=James Henthorn Todd}}</ref> Thisbolscaireacht literarycumtha workidir ofna propaganda was composed betweenblianta 1103 andagus 1111 byar a descendant of Brian Boru,ord [[Muircheartach Ua Briain|Mhuircheartaigh Uí Bhriain]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Ní Mhaonaigh |first=Máire |title=Brian Boru: Ireland's Greatest King? |year=2007 |publisher=Tempus |location=Stroud |pages=45–46}}</ref> HerInsítear brothersa scéal gur thit a deartháir, Maol Mordha, hasfaoi cededsmacht vassalageBhriain toBóramha, Brianagus Boru,gur andchothaigh Gormlaith incites himé, unsuccessfullygan rath, todul gochun tocogaidh in waréadan againstBhriain Brian.<ref>Todd, Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh, lch. 143.</ref>
''Sa seanscéal Íoslannach den 13ú haois [[NjálsSaga saga|Njál's Saga]], a thirteenth-century Icelandic literary work,<ref name="Njal's Saga">{{cite book |last=Cook |first=Robert |title=Njal's Saga |year=2001 |publisher=Penguin |location=Londain}}</ref> referreddéantar totrácht heruirthi asfaoin ainm Kormloð,'' and portrayed her as a jealous divorcee bent on revenge on her ex-husband, Brian Bóramha.<ref>Cook, Njál's Saga, lch. 296</ref> In this narrative, she goads her son Sigtrygg, into gathering support from Vikings outside Ireland, most notably [[Sigurd the Stout|Sigurd]] of [[Inse Orc]] agus [[Brodir and Ospak of Man|Brodir]] of the [[Oileán Mhanann]], by promising her hand in marriage. This is the first work to introduce the idea that Gormlaith was divorced from Brian Boru.
== Early Modern narrative texts ==
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