Highlands, Islands, & Psalm 148 GOD’S PROVIDENCE IN FAMILY HISTORY 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 (’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 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: , from to Scotland /

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 brethren, including Ségéne mac Fiachnai (5th abbot of Iona) and Cumméne the White (7th abbot, died AD669), and Colman ( 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 & Olaf Kyrre

36 Battle of Stamford Bridge, 9-25-AD1066 IMPACT of ’S KING HARALD HARDRADA on the

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 (), England │ (a Norwegian) ______│______│ │ GODRED CROVAN ==== RAGNHILD │ King, & │ HARALDSDOTTIR OLAF III ==== THORA King Harald Hardrada the Hebrides (1079-1095), │ b. ~1050; d. ? Haraldsson │ Ragnvaldsdottir & (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” │ / 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, & ), 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, , &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 (, grandson of Thorfinn Skull-splitter Einarsson) that she would marry Sigurd Hlodvirsson if (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 Ireland” (AD2018), page 7.

44 , 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 Stevenson, “Heresy, Inquisition and Late Medieval St. Andrews”, in Medieval St. Andrews: Church, Cult, City (Michael Brown & Katie Stevenson, eds.; Boydell Press, 2017), page 335, and in “Lollardy, Hussitism and the Scottish Inquisition, c.1390-c.1527”, Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique, 110(3-4), 2015.] John Knox himself appreciated the Lollards’ godly witness and influence in Scotland. 48 John Knox’s spiritual legacy: transplanted Calvinist faith & theology to Scotland (& influenced English Puritanism), prioritizing Sola Scriptura authority for faith, & teaching the Scriptures in the common language; resisted & admonished Scotland’s queen (& other political leaders) who opposed Biblical Christianity; promoted Scotland’s Presbyterian church organization; role-modeled holy matrimony as a pastor; role-modeled prudence & patience under persecution, both fleeing & suffering slavery for opposing churchianity; supported execution of Queen Mary (for helping to murdering her husband, king- consort Henry Stuart (“Lord Darnley”, F2 of England’s Henry VII) while Queen Mary was carrying the future King James VI/I; shared in translating the pre-KJV Geneva Bible. 49 Which Scottish king was born in Edinburgh , in this bedchamber, on June 19th of A.D. 1566 ?

50 SOMERLED et ux RAGNHILD OLAFSDOTTIR F1 Angus Somerledsson, Lord of Bute, with wife Ragnhild of the Isles, begat a son James; F2 James Macrory (or “MacRuari”), whose wife’s name is unavailable, begat daughter Jean; F3 Jean MacRory, with husband Alexander, the 4th High Steward, begat a son James; F4 James, the 5th High Steward, with wife Cecilia of Dunbar, begat a son Walter; F5 Walter, the 6th High Steward, with wife Marjorie Bruce, begat a son Robert; F6 Robert II, king of Scotland, with wife Elizabeth Mure, begat a son John, later called “Robert”; F7 Robert III (orig. “John”, renamed), with wife Annabella Drummond, begat a son James (I); F8 James I Stuart, king of Scotland, with wife Joan Beaufort, begat a son, James (II); F9 James II Stuart, king of Scotland, with wife Mary of Gueldres, begat a son James (III); F10 James III Stuart, king of Scotland, with wife Margaret of Denmark, begat a son James (IV); F11 James IV Stuart, king of Scotland, with wife Margaret Tudor, begat a son James (V); F12 James V Stuart, king of Scotland, with wife Mary of Guise, begat a daughter Mary (I); F13 Mary Queen of Scots (Stuart), with husband Darnley, begat a son James (VI); F14 James VI, king of Scotland (at age 1!), later King James I of England & Ireland: KJV sponsor!

51 King James VI / I, son of Mary, Queen of Scots ( How would this affect religious liberty? ) AD1541 “Kingdom of Ireland” est’d under Henry VIII; AD1603 union of England & Scotland; AD1605 Gunpowder Plot; AD1611 Authorized Version (“King James Bible”)

52 AD1558 “Bloody Mary” Tudor dies, so Queen Elizabeth I ascends, despite MQS; King-consort Darnley leads killing of MQS’s favorite (Riccio) when she is pregnant; future King James VI / I born in Edinburgh in June AD1566; Darnley announces separation from Mary Sept. AD1566; Mary Queen of Scots murders (Feb.), remarries (May), captured (June), miscarries twins & abdicates (July) AD1567; escapes & flees (May) to England, but is restrained there on suspicion of murder of Darnley AD1568; St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre AD1572; Throckmorton Plot AD1583; Holland’s Stadtholder/Prince Wm. (“the Silent”) Orange assassinated AD1584; Parliament passes Act for the Surety of the Queen’s Person AD1585; Babington Plot [led by recusant Anthony Babington & John Ballard, S.J., which MQS agreed to, signing after “Let the great plot commence”], treason trials, & MQS sentenced AD1586; executed AD1587; Spanish Armada AD1588; AD1603 Queen Elizabeth dies / King James VI = James I of England & Ireland; Gunpowder Plot fails AD1605; KJV in AD1611 !

53 King James almost assassinated ! Gunpowder Plot of AD1604-AD1605 Guy Fawkes used 2X powder needed !

54 James VI, F14 of Somerled & Ragnhild, survived Gunpowder Plot (A.D. 1605); sponsored KJV (A.D. 1611)

55 Holland’s Thanksgiving Medal ( includes wordplay from Psalm 121:4 ) British thanksgiving holiday: November 5th

56 57 Gunpowder Plot H.L. reënactment, fatal 330’ radius AD2005

58 Tyndale Bible, Geneva Bible, KJV

59 > 2,000,000,000 printed copies ! So, politically speaking, who was the providential champion of Scotland’s Protestant Reformation? It was King James VI/I Stuart, who politically sponsored Protestantism in Scotland!

61 Banished from Scotland to America … (why Robert Abernethy migrated in AD1652)

Robert Abernethy (19), 1 of 1610 prisoners of war shipped to America by AD1652, arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, where he served 4 years as an indentured servant, after having been on the losing Scots side against Oliver Cromwell's English Roundheads, in either the battle of Dunbar (09/03/AD1650) or in the battle of Worcester (09/03/AD1651). The final battle took place at Worcester, England, by the River Severn, resulting in ~ 3,000 dead Scots and ~ 10,000 prisoners-of-war. A Clodfelter marries an Abernethy Thank God for other family histories. Don’t forget your forever family ! Family history involves geography: 1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem- Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife [Naomi], and his two sons. …[all 3 men died in Moab, leaving 3 widows] … 6 Then she [i.e., Naomi] arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited His people in giving them bread. (Ruth 1:1,6) 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.

66 “Providential procreation”? Happy Fathers’ Day!