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The most well-known raiders to the Island are the Vikings who arrived here in the late 8th or early 9th century. Their impact and legacy endures in some of our place-names, traditions, customs and of course family bloodlines.

A Manx tradition concerns King Orry who, it is said, landed at The Lhen shore with a flotilla of Viking ships and in peace met with some of the local people.  When asked where he came from, he pointed north and with the Milky Way likely showing in the night sky, the old Manx folk thought he was pointing to the stars.  To this day in Manx Gaelic, the Milky Way is known as Yn Raad Mooar Ree Gorry, the Great Road of King Orry.