{"id":74,"date":"2026-07-26T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikecaine.im\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:13:22","slug":"howstrake-the-viking-period","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mikecaine.im\/index.php\/howstrake-the-viking-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Howstrake The Viking Period"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"74\" class=\"elementor elementor-74\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1340d2a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1340d2a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e7181c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1e7181c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Viking Period Guide<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-718ebc3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"718ebc3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Howstrake\nThe Viking Period\n <span> (From About 900 To 1266)<\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-774a119 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"774a119\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Viking era left a lasting mark on Howstrake, shaping its history, place names, and cultural heritage. Although few physical remains survive, remarkable monuments such as Thurith&#8217;s Cross, together with ancient Norse place names, provide valuable evidence of Scandinavian settlement and influence on this part of the Isle of Man between the 10th and 13th centuries.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e4d10f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2e4d10f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe300db e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"fe300db\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-530868a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"530868a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Although, like the rest of the Island, Howstrake was inhabited by the Vikings, there is only one tangible item which, without any doubt, remains from their period of occupation. A stone memorial slab, known as Thurith&#8217;s Cross, has runic inscriptions carved on both its faces. On one face the runes read &#8211; THE CROSS &#8211; JESUS CHRIST THURITH CARVED THESE RUNES. This cross, numbered 141[113], was recorded as being in a garden in Onchan village in 1841 but lay there until 1892 when it was removed to St Peter&#8217;s Church for safe-keeping.<\/p><p>Of the other Onchan crosses, one is undoubtedly Celtic. The remaining four were categorised as Celtic by P.M.C. Kermode in &#8220;Manx Crosses&#8221;, 1907, but Sir David M. 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