Viking Picture Spam
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curiouswombatKatherine and I both took our cameras when we went to Peel on Sunday to watch the Vikings! re-enactment. Her pictures, as usual, came out better than mine, and so behind the cut you will find a selection of her photos - all kudos to the daughter!!
The first two show some of the early clashes between the locals and the invaders - you can see a long-ship or two in the sea behind them. THe loclas would have been dressed and armed in a very similar way to the raiders.
After a number of clashes the battles moved up towards the stockade.
As the defenders began to lose, even the women joined in the defence - this was quite normal - note the middle-aged lady who has grabbed a helmet and put it on under her shawl, and is wielding a sword with some expertise!
This final shot shows some of the participants marching back along the beach - with Peel Castle as a backdrop
Today, although it was our National Day, where all the Laws have to be read out on Tynwald Hill (yes - genuine outdoors type hill) and dancing, carousing, and this year more fighting vikings, would all be in the environs, we went nowhere near any of it. And they will all have got VERY WET!! D-d and I went to a couple of UK shops in Douglas, who don't get the day off, and bought a new lamp, duvet, bedding, etc. for the little bedroom, because, rejoice! rejoice! the decorator has started the redecorating! Couldn't get new carpet or bed organised because they will both come from local suppliers, who were all closed today.
And for those of you who are following it, the next chapter of Ten Years After will be up tomorrow.
The first two show some of the early clashes between the locals and the invaders - you can see a long-ship or two in the sea behind them. THe loclas would have been dressed and armed in a very similar way to the raiders.
After a number of clashes the battles moved up towards the stockade.
As the defenders began to lose, even the women joined in the defence - this was quite normal - note the middle-aged lady who has grabbed a helmet and put it on under her shawl, and is wielding a sword with some expertise!
This final shot shows some of the participants marching back along the beach - with Peel Castle as a backdrop
Today, although it was our National Day, where all the Laws have to be read out on Tynwald Hill (yes - genuine outdoors type hill) and dancing, carousing, and this year more fighting vikings, would all be in the environs, we went nowhere near any of it. And they will all have got VERY WET!! D-d and I went to a couple of UK shops in Douglas, who don't get the day off, and bought a new lamp, duvet, bedding, etc. for the little bedroom, because, rejoice! rejoice! the decorator has started the redecorating! Couldn't get new carpet or bed organised because they will both come from local suppliers, who were all closed today.
And for those of you who are following it, the next chapter of Ten Years After will be up tomorrow.
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Date: 05/07/2005 09:20 pm (UTC)Our Bishop's title is still Bishop of 'Sodor and Mann' - where Sodor is a corruption of Sudreys - the Southern Isles - the Southern Hebrides.
Our political system is still based on the old Sheadings as well - the seven divisions from which the members of the Ting were drawn.
Re Laxey - I think actually it may be one of the places where the name is a mixture of Norse and Gaelic - Laxaa is probably the older spelling, I just knew Lax from gravadlax!! And that Laxey is name after its salmon river.
We have lots of places that end in 'by' which, if my memory of early history lessons is right, comes from the Norse for a farm(?) - places such as Crosby, Colby, Kirkby, Dalby etc. But we also have a lot of places beginning 'balla' which is the gaelic for the same thing. And the Norse names still show up in surnames, for example Corkill - the C is the Manx way of denoting son of, from Mac - so Corkill is C'Thorkill, and so on.
Here endeth the history lesson!!
S2C is right - you'd get a really good idea of the history from The Cloak of Mist - as well as a very, very good read. And it's not THAT long - probably take under an hour.
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Date: 05/07/2005 10:40 pm (UTC)For a very brief look at a potted history you could look at http://www.gov.im/mnh/heritage/museums/manannan.xml
Just because it has a good picture of Odin's Raven - now a display, but the longship built to sail the Viking route for our millenium in 1979.
Cloak of Mist is Eight Chapters long - maybe just over an hour, depending on reading speed I guess, but not the sort of thing that'll take a week anyway!!