First time leaving the house in two weeks…so after some much needed shopping, I had to go to St John’s to drop something off and enjoyed a quick visit to…
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St Adamnan’s Church, also known as “Lonan Old Church” and originally known in Manx as Keeill ny-Traie, or “the chapel by the shore”, is the former parish church of Lonan…
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• TARROO = a bull. Magher yn Tharroo (field of the bull). • DOW = an ox. Ghaw-yn-Ghow (cove of the ox) • BOA (gen. pl. ny baa) = a…
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There used to be a wise old woman living near St. John’s on the Isle of Man, who was making charms against witchcraft, and curing many things with herbs and…
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The constitutional framework of the Kingdom of Man and the Isles set up by Godred Crovan in 1079 was seriously impaired by his grand-daughter’s husband Somerled, less than a century…
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FREE DOWNLOADS from the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, University of Nottingham: ►Viking Myths & Rituals on the Isle of Man (2014) (Vol I) http://bit.ly/2MacYYt ►The Vikings…
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“It was not with his sword he kept her, nor his arrow, nor his bow, but when he would see the ships coming, he hid her right round with a…
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Phynodderee/Fenodyree is sometimes used as a proper name and sometimes as the name of a class of beings, the latter of which is a hairy little creature, a sort of…