Isle of Man Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
historic nation and a self-governing British Crown dependency
About Isle of Man
Rising sea levels made this an island around 6500 BC, the same era that Great Britain was sundered from the continent. Stone Age settlers farmed, fished and erected megaliths. In the Iron Age around 500 BC came the Celts, who spoke a Brythonic or P-Celtic language akin to Old Welsh. The Romans probably set foot here but didn't linger. About 500 AD arrivals from Ireland brought Q-Celtic, the forerunner to the Manx, Scottish and Irish Gaelic languages. From 800 AD the Vikings raided, then settled and became Christianised. Godred Crovan (King Orry of legend) was a Viking or Norse warrior who ruled from the 1070s. His realm was calledSuðr-eyjar, the southern islands of Mann and the Hebrides, distinct fromNorðr-eyjarthe northern islands of Orkney and Shetland, hence the ecclesiastical diocese o
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