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	Isle of Man
		The national flag of Man is a plain red field with the "trinacria" emblem in the centre.
		This is the official civil ensign for the Isle of Man. The three conjoined legs are the "triskelion", the symbol of Man. The land flag for the Isle of Man is red with the triskelion in the centre (no Union Flag).
		This flag is a banner of the former arms of the Kings of Man, and is known as the MacDonald flag.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/im.html (1374 words)

	Harald of the Isle of Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King Harald of the Isle of Man was the son of his predecessor, King Olaf II of the Isle of Man.
		King Harald eventually died in a shipwreck off the coast of Wales when returning from Norway after marrying the daughter of Norway's King.
		He was succeeded by King Ragnald II of the Isle of Man.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harald_of_the_Isle_of_Man (188 words)

	HEBRIDES - LoveToKnow Article on HEBRIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Latinized form was Sodorenses, preserved to modern times in the title of the bishop of Sodor and Man. The original inhabitants seem to have been of the same Celtic race as those settled on the mainland.
		Flis son, Donald of the Isles, was memorable for his rebellion in support of his claim to the earldom oi Ross, in which, however, he was unsuccessful.
		Alexander, sor of Donald, resumed the hereditary warfare against the Scottisi crown; and in 5462 a treaty was concluded between Alexander~ son and successor John and Edward IV.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HEBRIDES.htm (1593 words)

	Heimskringla: Harald Harfager's Saga
		After King Harald had experienced the cunning of the Fin woman, he was so angry that he drove from him the sons he had with her, and would not suffer them before his eyes.
		Eirik, Harald's son, was fostered in the house of the herse Thorer, son of Hroald, in the Fjord district.
		Harald died on a bed of sickness in Hogaland (A.D. 933), and was buried under a mound at Haugar in Karmtsund.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Heimskringla/harfager.html (10639 words)

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		April — Harald manages to push the Scots back across the border in most places but Malcolm is able to remain in control of the piece of England between Strathclyde and the west coast, which he gives to Edgar as part of Strathclyde.
		June — Godred Covan of Islay declares himself Lord of Man and the Isles (the Isle of Man and the Hebrides).
		This is not a shock as Man and the Isles used to be part of the Earldom of Orkney.
	www.angelfire.com /weird2/althistx/va2.html (1100 words)

	Man
		The national flag of Man is a plain red field with the "trinacria" emblem in the centre.
		This is the official civil ensign for the Isle of Man. The three conjoined legs are the "triskelion", the symbol of Man. The land flag for the Isle of Man is red with the triskelion in the centre (no union flag).
		This flag is a banner of the former arms of the Kings of Man, and is known as the MacDonald flag.
	flagspot.net /flags/im.html (1852 words)

	Harald of the Isle of Man
		King Harald of the Isle of Man was the son of his predecessor, King Olaf II of the Isle of Man.
		King Harald eventually died in a shipwreck off the coast of Wales when returning from Norway after marrying the daughter of Norway's King.
		He was succeeded by King Ragnald II of the Isle of Man.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/ha/harald_of_the_isle_of_man.html (174 words)

	Nordic Culture > Scandinavians in the Isle of Man - Scandinavica.com
		After conquering the Isle of Man in the early 9th century, the Norse rulers brought with them their own system of law-making and administration, the Þingvöllur or Thing-Vollr, an old Norse word which means 'assembly field'.
		The Isle of Man’s Tynwald claims to be "the oldest parliament in the world in continuous existence", based in the belief that government by Thingvollr or Tynwald was first established in Man during the late 800’s.
		Tynwald - The Parliament of the Isle of Man
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/history/man.htm (1472 words)

	King Canute the Great
		Canute (who is known as Knud in Denmark and Knut in Norway) was the son of Svein Forkbeard Canute's grandfather was Harald Bluetooth and his great-grandfather was King Gorm.
		In England, in the year 1000, the Saxon King Aethelred plundered the Isle of Man and parts of The Danelaw, to try to crush the independently-minded Scandinavians living there.
		Canute's brother, Harald, King of Denmark, died in 1018 and Canute went to Denmark to secure his hold over that realm.
	www.viking.no /e/people/e-knud.htm (1099 words)

	The Víking Era (793-~1100 CE)
		Norse raid and plunder monastary on isle of Lindisfarne.
		King Æthelræd of England attacks the Isle of Man in reprisal for Norse raids.
		Godred Crovan unites the Isle of Man and the Hebrides at the battle of Skyhill.
	gersey.tripod.com /history/timeline.html (1425 words)

	Vikings in Scotland and the Western Isles
		Settlers from Norway came to the Shetlands, the Orkneys, the Hebridies, the Isle of Man, the Western Islands, and parts of the Scottish mainland, attracted because the land and climate were similar to that back home in Scandinavia, with the added attraction of their proximity to the profitable Viking centers in Ireland and England.
		Man had its own bishop prior to 1079, and a bishopric of Sodor and Man was established in the mid 12th century.
		Killip, Margaret I. The Folklore of the Isle of Man
	www.vikinganswerlady.com /scotland.htm (7124 words)

	Western Isles Hotel
		Godfred V of the Isle of Man (1153-1158)
		Somerled of the Isle of Man (1158-1164) The Isles broke away from the Isle of Man and became an independent kingdom.
		Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour is the national anthem of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/224/western-isles-hotel.html (1141 words)

	Heimskringla: Saga of Harald Hardrade: Part I
		Harald, son of Sigurd Syr, was born in the year A.D. 1015, and left Norway A.D. He was called Hardrade, that is, the severe counsellor, the tyrant, though the Icelanders never applied this epithet to him.
		Harald, son of Sigurd Syr, brother of Olaf the Saint, by the same mother, was at the battle of Stiklestad, and was fifteen years old when King Olaf the Saint fell, as was before related.
		Harald went with his men to the land of Jerusalem and then up to the city of Jerusalem, and wheresoever he came in the land all the towns and strongholds were given up to him.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Heimskringla/hardrade1.html (11978 words)

	Re: Harald the Black - King of Iceland
		He is said to descend from an Olaf.
		His son is Godfred (Crovan) King of Dublin and his grandson is "Olav the Red" - King of the Isle of Man. I am descended from Olav the Red (through my Macdonald of Glencoe, Scotland heritage) and am not able to find out any more information about Harald the Black.
		Re: Harald the Black - King of Iceland Susan Fowler 8/11/04
	genforum.genealogy.com /iceland/messages/2623.html (105 words)

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		Howbeit, seeing no man to step forth to vndertake the recording of so many memorable actions, but euery man to folow his priuate affaires: the ardent loue of my countrey deuoured all difficulties, and as it were with a sharpe goad prouoked me and thrust me forward into this most troublesome and painfull action.
		To him we are principally indebted for a clear and comprehensive description of those noble discoveries of the English nation made by sea or over land to the most distant quarter of the earth.
		He was a man of exceeding wealth in such riches, wherein the wealth of that countrey doth consist.
	www.cise.ufl.edu /mirrors/gutenberg/etext04/7hk0110.txt (10798 words)

	notes to Manx Soc Vol X
		The drainage of the Great Curragh, in the north of the Isle of Man, which was anciently occupied by several lakes, as seen in the map accompanying this volume, commenced about the close of the 16th century.
		The Isle of Man is one of the richest, if not the richest, mining districts in the British Isles; yielding as much as 2,600 tons of lead ore, 3,181 tons of blend (sulphuret of zinc), 360 tons of copper, and 1,650 tons of hematite iron ore, in the year.
		The Isle of Man is remarkable for the large number of barrows, cairns, cists, stone circles, and bauta-stones (bauter steiner), tall uninscribed stones, such as the two called the "giant's quoiting stones," near Port St. Mary; these latter are probably remains of the Heathen Northmen ; the Christianised Northmen afterwards erected Runic monuments.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/manxsoc/msvol10/notes.htm (7514 words)

	Chap 12 (pp480-485) Geology of the Isle of Man, Lamplugh, 1903
		Chap 12 (pp480-485) Geology of the Isle of Man, Lamplugh, 1903
		The island was at that time still under the dominance of Norway; and its King, Harald II, granted a charter by which the monks of Furness Abbey obtained the right to work the mines.
		In the course of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, the noble family of Stanley appear to have sought for copper in the same neighbourhood; traces of their labours remain.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/fulltext/geo1903/p480.htm (2111 words)

	Working group will progress Norwegian opportunities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The creation of the group follows the recent successful visit to Norway of an Isle of Man delegation headed by the Chief Minister, who met the country’s Prime Minister Mr Kjell Magne Bondevik during the trip to Stavanger.
		Stavanger is bidding to be the non-EU City of Culture in 2008 and discussions included the possibility of the Isle of Man acting as a link between it and Liverpool, which is set to be the EU City of Culture in that year.
		The Isle of Man Parliament, Tynwald, is the world’s oldest continuous parliament and was founded more than 1,000 years ago by Viking settlers from Norway.
	www.mbc.org.im /artman/publish/printer_149.shtml (573 words)

	Overview of the Orkneys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		According to the sagas Harald Finehair (a Norwegian king) established the earldom of Orkney.
		Raids on the Norway coast by Vikings from the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland led to a punitive expedition by Harald reaching as far south as the Isle of Man. Harald granted the earldom of Orkney and Shetland to a Norwegian earl Rognvald of More.
		Harald had problems keeping control of the west coast of Norway.
	www.manaraefan.ndo.co.uk /timeline/Raven_Overview_Orkneys.htm (242 words)

	The Kings of the Isle of Man
		The existence of a "Magnus" son of Harald is given only in late sources, and seems to be a error for "mac Arailt" in the earlier sources, in which "mac" became "Maccus" and then "Magnus" in successive corruptions of the records.
		King Echmarcach of Dublin and Man was the son of a certain Ragnall, and there are different opinions as to which of the known individuals that name was his father.
		Duffy (1992) = Séan Duffy, "Irishmen and Islemen in the Kingdoms of Dublin and Man, 1052-1171", Ériu 43 (1992), 93-133.
	www.rootsweb.com /~medieval/man.htm (4050 words)

	England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The central and southern portions of the Isle of Britain.
		Odo was the half-brother of William the Conqueror, and the man who commissioned the famous Bayeaux Tapestry, which depicts the conquest of England by the Normans.
		Tostig fled to the court of Harald Hardradi of Norway, and participated in the latter’s invasion of England in 1066.
	www.hostkingdom.net /engl.html (4093 words)

	Kings of Man and the Isles
		In 1164 the Isles became a separate kingdom from Man. See below for the continuation of the rulers of the Isles.
		Partly in an attempt to suppress smuggling, the British purchased the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Man in 1765, and the rest of the Earl of Atholl's prerogatives in 1828, upon which Man became a Crown Possession.
		The lord of Man is currently appointed by the British monarch.
	www.sizes.com /time/CHRNMan_kings.htm (142 words)

	Feegan's Lounge Isle of Man
		Before the dynasty of Godred Crovan it is difficult to be precise in giving names and dates of ninth and tenth century Norse rulers, many of whom can only be ascribed as traditional.
		Lagman becomes king but takes the cross of the Crusaders after putting out the eyes of the rebellious Harald, and dies in Jerusalem in 1096.
		During the minority of Olaf, there is a period of great uncertainty (including the occupation of King Magnus of Norway 1098-1103) until the return of Olaf from the court of King Henry I of England.
	www.feegan.com /manx/lords.php (227 words)

	DBA Scenario: The Battle of Sky Hill (1079 AD)
		This battle took place on the Isle of Man in 1079 AD, and although relatively insignificant in the overall scheme of things, it established a dynasty that would rule the island, and the Hebrides, for the next two hundred years.
		At the time of the battle, the Isle of Man was part of a larger political entity called the Kingdom of the Sudreys, which consisted of Man and the Hebrides.
		Despite its relative proximity to Britain, the Isle of Man remained untouched by the Romans or Saxons, and at the time of the expansion of the Vikings still had a Celtic population.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/skyhill.html (1918 words)

	Giants in the United Kingdom
		Among the many megaliths on the Isle of Man is one called the Cloven Stones, located in the little village of Baldrine a few miles north of Douglas.
		On November 15, 1699, King William invited him to Kensington Palace to demonstrate to the court his extraordinary ability at lifting weight.
		He is allowed by the nobility and gentry, who daily resort to see him, to have the most stupendous and gigantic form (altho' a boy), and is the only representation in the world of the ancient and magnificent giants of that kingdom.
	www.stevequayle.com /Giants/UK/UK5.html (1997 words)

	What the Bleep Do We Know!? - The Movie
		I know who I am, I have a dream, time is only a man made theory and I know Ill get there eventually and if I die early then I would have died a happy 21 year young person, because it would have been chasing, full filling my dreams.
		Four years ago in Ireland, i met a man who recovered from a brain haemorrhage, picked up a empty wheelchair and started walking and pushing it around his area speaking about his friend in the chair.
		Its 5 years now, and at the moment he has now moved to Australia in search for a producer to record his own aims, as he is the first mentally disabled person to walk across a continent, bringing an invisible character that he believes in.
	www.whatthebleep.com /guestbook (2476 words)

	Isle of Man Government Infocentre - NORWAY CELEBRATIONS HAILED A SUCCESS: WITH A THREE LEGS STRATEGY FOR 2008
		Through the work of Manx National Heritage in recent years, the Isle of Man now has strong links in place with both Liverpool and Stavanger, the capital of the county of Rogaland in south-western Norway.
		A formal agreement for cultural co-operation was signed with Rogaland County in the presence of the King and Queen of Norway in 2002, and a similar formal Agreement was signed with National Museums Liverpool in 2004.
		Presentations were given about facilities, venues, festivals, events and performers which the Isle of Man and the Norwegian Counties and Municipalities could offer each other.
	www.gov.im /lib/news/mnh/withathreelegsst.xml (1300 words)

	Isle of Man Guide - MNH Forges Link with Liverpool
		At a formal ceremony held in Liverpool a new agreement for cultural co-operation has been signed between Manx National Heritage and the National Museums of Liverpool.
		The new Agreement recognises the historical links between the Isle of Man and Liverpool, the existing Culture Agreement between Manx National Heritage and the County of Rogaland, Norway and the mutual interests in the protection and presentation of cultural heritage.
		The Agreement will encourage the development of relations and joint activities in the areas of research, learning and outreach, training and development.
	www.iomguide.com /news/government-community-news.php?story=560 (588 words)

	Urry Family History
		We can all be grateful to him for his very efficient and unrelenting research that has given present and future generations a more interesting and more accurate past.
		I think it will be a pleasure for him to know that his work is not lost and will not be forgotten in some dusty archive.
		A memorial to him is erected in Gatcombe church.
	www.marcireau.fr /urry (9071 words)

	The Viking Age
		Their longboats could easily be rowed upriver into the inland where-ever they came, and they where much dreaded since it was hard to defend the villages against these warriors which were fearless of anything.
		It records the turbulent life of King Harald Hardradi of Norway, who served and fought in every corner of Europe, from Russia to Sicily.
		It is a superb portrait of a man who could well have changed the whole course of English history.
	vinlandkonsult.tripod.com /viking.htm (979 words)

	Isle of Wight Christian Fellowship
		Hi Guys - just to let you all know that a man called Pastor Greg Violi is coming with his daughter to hold a meeting in Freda Wright's house in St Lawrence.
		He is going for 5 months starting on the 18th of February and please can we keep him in prayer that he will still healthy and grow in God.
		The last time I saw him, he came to stay for a weekend and turned up with his mountain board and managed to get me covered in bruises by the end of the day.
	iowcf.blogspot.com (8097 words)

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