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church on the island under Godred or his predecessor
Magnus – as indeed is not impossible : for a realm
in touch with England on the one hand, and Ireland
on the other, inhabited by a settled population as
Man then was, must have assimilated itself to its surroundings.
The modern name of the bishopric still
recalls the old kingdom which was coextensive with it,
Sodoriensis et Manniæ, of the Sudreyjar (South-isles,
Hebrides) and Man; abbreviated into "Sodor. and
Man." It need hardly be said that such a form as
"Sodor" or "the Sodors" is a barbarism when used
for Sudreyjar.
Thorfinn, the great jarl of Orkney, whose power and
presence in Galloway overshadowed Manx independence,
died in 1064, about which time we find Godred
Sigtryggsson on the throne. He sent aid to the Norse
invasion of England in 1066, and some of the few
who escaped from Stamford Bridge took refuge with
him. Among these was Godred Crovan, son of
Harold the Black of Islay (as Munch showed, not
"of Iceland"), who eventually wrested Man from
Fingall, Godred Sigtryggsson’s heir, about 1075. He
set over the northern islands his son Lagman, who
succeeded him on the Manx throne as a monarch of
an independent power. To reassert the ancient rights
of Norway over the Islands, Magnus Barefoot invaded
at the end of the eleventh century, and placed Ingimund
over the northern Hebrides, and Ottar over Man.
Both fell in revolts, and Magnus Barefoot invaded
again, leaving the islands desolated, though not without
some attempt to restore the prosperity of the Manx.
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