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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In 1927 PMC Kermode examined a tumulus on Smeale farm on the Isle of Man, which revealed the interesting fact that there had been a ship burial there, the…
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Tynwald is the greatest monument that the Norsemen have left us. The ceremony which is seen at Cronk y Keeill Eoin, ‘the Mound of the Church of St John,’ is…
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In older times on the Isle of Man, for the majority of people marriage was ‘until death us do part.’ Divorce and separation were not lightly regarded nor much sought…
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The bulk of our place-names according to Marstrander (Norwegian linguist and Prof. of Celtic Studies in Oslo) belong to the period subsequent to Norse times. This raises a debatable point;…
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Though only part of the mound remains, it is probably a Bronze Age burial site which was reused for Christian or pagan inhumations in the medieval period; its name though…
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Of the men who worked on the series of carved crosses left on the Isle of Man as a memorial of the Viking Age, only one name has come down…