General Chat

I have always been very proud of my Manx roots (both my paternal
g.parents were Manx and their trees go back many
many generations.

OH has a habit of when anything in media mentions Vikings
- his cry was 'that's your lot again, raping, pillaging and looting'.
Me - 'I am Manx' until


two days ago I received my magazine from MFHS
and there has been a privately funded 3 year DNA testing
male lines of Manx families. Under the heading Viking -
it appears that about 4-5 families have a perfect match of
descent from a Viking settler. Two other families descend
from yet another Viking settler and I am one of those families.

He is having a field day - every now and again it breaks
into song 'A Viking we shall go' (a hunting we shall go).

The other groups after Vikings are Irish and Scots.

Hi Chris, can you remove some .... please lol it has stretched the post right off to the right :-D

You might be interested in this article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9533639/What-did-the-Vikings-ever-do-for-us.html

Hope this works now RR - I will look at the article. Have looked - very interesting -no doubt himself will be glued. I love the cartoon - do not see any resemblance however as a family we do have large eyes and large ear lobes ;-)

Chris I wonder how many of the people I used to know in the IOM were Viking by descent :-) No pillaging or plundering though I do remember the Viking festival on the beach at Peel ( about 1969 lol) lots of running around in horned headgear :-)

Heaven only knows RR. A walk around Rushen graveyard and OH remarked there only seemed to be about 4-6 surnames all intermarrying.

They still have the Viking funeral at Peel.

One of the guys in my tree was a Manx man and fluent in the language. The first native Manx Bishop of Sodor & Man since the 1300s, and the last Manx-speaking one.

Ayr ain t'ayns niau,
Casherick dy row dty ennym.
Dy jig dty reeriaght.
Dty aigney dy row jeant er y thalloo, myr t'eh ayns niau.
Cur dooin nyn arran jiu as gagh laa.
As leih dooin nyn loghtyn,
myr ta shin leih dauesyn ta jannoo loghtyn nyn oi.
As ny leeid shin ayns miolagh, agh livrey shin veih olk:

Son lhiat's y reeriaght, as y phooar, as y ghloyr,
son dy bragh as dy bragh.
Amen

Ooh, is somebody going to RR Rollo the Red for bad language? :-0

The Lord's Prayer ? Surely not.
<3

both my g.parents were Manx speakers and always used it when they did not wish their children to hear their conversations - even when those children were adults