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Highlands, Islands, & Psalm Highlands, Islands, & Psalm 148 GOD’S PROVIDENCE IN FAMILY HISTORY Somerled et ux, their kin, & especially their royal F14 son Dr. James J. S. Johnson ICR’s “Your Origins Matter” series Bayside Community Church, Tampa Sunday, June 16th AD2019, 10 a.m. 1 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps; fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his Word; mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars; beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl; kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth; both young men, and maidens; old men, and children! Let them praise the name of the LORD: for His name alone is excellent; His glory is above the earth and heaven. (Psalm 148:7-13) 2 Psalm 148 Creation is a Cosmic Orchestra, Providing Praise Music for God Verse 7: all critters in the “deeps” Verse 9: trees, including evergreen trees Wood Pigeons & Squirrels routinely nest in Scottish trees 5 Verse 10: land animals, of all sorts Badger homes (“setts”) are cavernous ! Verse 10: creepy critters ! including Aphid-eating Trap-door Spiders Earthworms live in, tunnel through, & change the soil, increasing its aeration, H2O drainage, soil turnover, etc. Verse 10: flying fowl Osprey (a/k/a Fish Hawk) 10 11 12 Red Grouse (Scotland’s Willow Ptarmigan subspecies) a/k/a Moorfowl, Moorcock, Moorbird 13 Wood Sandpiper (TL), Common Sandpiper (M), Bagpiper (R) 14 Verse 11: people, “big” & “small” Sing unto the LORD a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles [i.e., the coast-lands] and the inhabitants thereof. (Isaiah 42:10) 16 “This will be written for the generation to come, that a niphal participle נ ִ֝רְבָ֗א ] people yet to be created form of bara’] may praise the LORD” (Psalm 102:18) Why learn about family history ? • Learning family history can help us to better appreciate God as our very personal Creator. • Learning family history, of specific people who have made a serious impact (for good) in world history, can help us to appreciate God’s amazing providence & sovereignty, over generations, throughout time (history) & space (geography). • Learning the family history of others can help us to appreciate how valuable they are to God. 18 You could have been a grackle! ( a Fathers’ Day providential procreation perspective ) And [God, Who made the world and all things therein] hath made, of one blood, all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and He [i.e., God] hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. (Acts 17:26) “Boundaries” of habitation can be geographical (like seas, mountains, & rivers) or political (like national boundaries). 20 Caveat: Viking history suffers “revision”. 21 Leif Eiriksson was a Viking soul-winner! 22 Thjodhild’s Chapel, Brattahlid, Greenland 23 What about forensic studies of Viking history ? Evolutionary assumptions corrupt C-14 dating ! ( Uniformitarian error misleads dating of bones. ) What about C-14 dating assumptions? C-14 dating method uses flawed assumptions ! “The [Carbon-14-based] age assignment for certain Viking bones caused a decades-long controversy until the Carbon-14 methodology used to date them was recently exposed for its flawed assumptions … [showing] one-size-fits all radiocarbon dating doesn’t work. … The Vikings were known for a seafood diet— specifically fish. Fish contain much less carbon-14 than land- based foods like grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, and livestock meats. Therefore, unless dietary differences are adjusted for, carbon-dated skeletons of fish-eating Vikings appear to be about 100 years or more “older” than they really are.” JJSJ, Acts & Facts (May AD2018, page 21) A.D. 563: Columba, from Ireland to Scotland / Hebrides 27 Decline of Britain’s Celtic Church after Columba: Adomnan, trusts Northumbria’s Ceolfrith, endorses Synod of Whitby ruling; Adomnan’s defection to Rome (~AD687) was rejected by the Iona brethren, including Ségéne mac Fiachnai (5th abbot of Iona) and Cumméne the White (7th abbot, died AD669), and Colman (Lindisfarne abbot who resigned in protest, AD664, returning to Iona, because Lindisfarne was controlled by Northumbria); Cuthbert replaced Colman. Adomnan became 9th abbot of Iona in AD679, transferring it to Rome by AD704. The Viking attack in AD793 was interpreted, then, as a display of God’s punitive wrath. 28 A.D. 802: Vikings attack Iona 29 Celtic Christianity survived in pockets. Meanwhile, The Church of Rome expanded its presence & control in Britain, including Scotland. 30 Aud, Hardrada, Olaf, Somerled & ux, etc. So, who was King Somerled ? 32 Somerled strove for Celtic revival. 33 Somerled led the “Isles men”. 34 Battle of Renfrew, A.D. 1164 (Somerled dies 6 miles west of Glasgow; Malcolm IV wins.) 35 King Somerled’s ancestry, including Norse kings Harald Hardrada & Olaf Kyrre 36 Battle of Stamford Bridge, 9-25-AD1066 IMPACT of NORWAY’S KING HARALD HARDRADA on the BRITISH ISLES Somerled is descended HARALD “HARDRADA” SIGURDSSON ===== THORA THORBERGSDOTTIR King of Norway (1046-1066) │ King Harald’s second wife b. 1015; d. Sept. 25th,1066 │ born 1025; died ? (F3 & F5) from Norway’s killed @ Stamford Bridge, near Jorvik (York), England │ (a Norwegian) _______________│__________ │ │ GODRED CROVAN ==== RAGNHILD │ King, Isle of Man & │ HARALDSDOTTIR OLAF III ==== THORA King Harald Hardrada the Hebrides (1079-1095), │ b. ~1050; d. ? Haraldsson │ Ragnvaldsdottir & Dublin (1091-1094) │ King of Norway │ of Norway b. ?; d. 1095 │ (1068-1093) │ b. ~1050?; d. ? est’d Man’s Tynwald │ b. 1045; d. 1093 │ │ survived Stamford Bridge │ INGIBJORG ====== OLAF THE RED │ Håkonssdottir │ Godredsson “Bitling” │ Orkney / Isle of Man │ King, Isle of Man & Hebrides TORA ====== MAGNUS III b. ~1097; d. ? │ (1114–1153) b. ~1085; d. 1153 of Norway │ “Bare–legs” Olafsson │ b. ?; d. ? │ King of Norway . │ │ (1093-1103) │ │ b. 1073; d. 8-24-1103 │ │ killed in Connaught, Eire │ │ │ BLATHMIN ======= SIGURD “the Crusader” │ (Irish princess) │ [“Jórsalafari”] Magnusson │ betrothed @ 5 │ King of Norway (1103-1130) │ abandoned by 14 year-old Sigurd │ King of Man & Isles (1098-1103) . │ at Orkney, in 1103 │ King of Orkney (1099-1105) │ actually married (as teen) in 1102 │ b. ~1089; d. March 26th, 1130 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ SIGURDSDOTTIR ===== GILLEBRIDE │ b. ~1104; d. ? │ Thane of Argyll . │ │ b. ~1095; d. ~1164 │ │ RAGNHILD OLAFSDOTTIR ========== SOMERLED macGILLEBRIDE “of Man” (i.e., Manx) │ King of Man & Hebrides 1156-1164 b. ~1117; d. ? │ b. ~1118; d. 1164 │ ROGNVALD SOMERLEDSSON (also REGINALD or RANALD / SUMARLIDASSON) b. ~1148; d. 1207 King of the Isles & lord of Dál Riata Scotland (Argyll, Islay, & Kintyre), 1164 to ~1210 © A.D. 2007 James J. S. Johnson Norfolk Heritage Review Short Paper # AD2007–03–25 So, who was Aud, Ragnhild’s ancestor ? ( mother of Thorstein, P2 of Groa, P3 of Grelod ) 39 Krosshólaborg (“cross hill”) 40 Why did Aud (& her family) flee north, to Iceland ? Aud lost Olaf, Ketil, & Thorstein (Sigurd’s ally). 41 Somerled’s wife Ragnhild, & her ancestors, including Aud, Groa, Grelod, Sigurd the Stout, &c 42 Grelod & Thorfinn Skull-splitter Hlodvir; Hlodvir & ux (Audna) Sigurd the Stout 43 Sigurd the Stout, Ragnhild’s ancestor, was duped & died at Clontarf (A.D. 1014). “Gormlaith instructed her son Silkbeard to tell Sigurd “the Stout” Hlodvirsson (earl of Orkney, grandson of Thorfinn Skull-splitter Einarsson) that she would marry Sigurd Hlodvirsson if Brian Boru (her ex) was defeated, plus Gormlaith would use her political power/influence to establish Sigurd as High King in Ireland. However, Gormlaith likewise instructed her son Silkbeard to similarly tell Bróðir (a/k/a Bróðir of Man, i.e., a warrior from the Isle of Man) that she would marry Bróðir if Brian Boru (her ex) was defeated, plus Gormlaith would use her political power/influence to establish Bróðir as High King in Ireland. … Orkney’s earl Sigurd Hlodvirsson was killed by Brian’s son Murchad [recall that Brian Boru was Gormlaith’s ex-husband]; soon afterwards Murchad himself (the main leader of Brian’s forces) also died. … Obviously Gormlaith never had a problem explaining her simultaneous proposals of marriage to Sigurd and to Bróðir --- because both men died then at Clontarf. …[And it further appears that Gormlaith then married the battle’s ‘winner’] Máel Sechlainn II, king of Meath, who usually had opposed Brian Boru more than he had helped him…. ”, JJSJ, Sitric ‘Silkbeard’, Family Fireworks, and Viking Age Ireland” (AD2018), page 7. 44 Battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1014 Was Gormlaith a queen worth dying for ? Ask Brian (Irish), Sigurd (Orcadian), & Broðir (Manx) ! 45 It’s good that Sigurd the Stout had fathered Thorfinn II (“the Mighty”, born ca. AD1009) before Sigurd died in AD1014. Thorfinn II begat Pål, who begat Håkon, who begat Ingibjorg, who married Manx-Hebridean king Olaf “the Red” (“Bitling”) Godredsson, who both parented Ragnhild Olafsdottir, who married Somerled. 46 Pål Thorfinnsson, Ragnhild’s ancestor, also survived Stamford Bridge (A.D. 1066); begat Håkon (A.D. 1070) 47 Scottish Pre-Reformation Lollards Lollards were controversial in Scotland: Dietrich von Nieheim (AD1414), a German historian reports that Wycliffite doctrines were popularly circulated in Bohemia and Moravia, as well as in England and Scotland. Jean d’Archéry (AD1415) reported the same in Bohemia and Scotland. Jean Gerson (AD1415) also reported Wycliffism in Scotland, as well as in France, Germany, Bohemia, and England. [See Katie
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