Blair Collection > Surnames & place-names of the Isle of Man

292 Manx ^lacc-Hames.
signed themselves * Sodorensis,' occasionally ' Sodor
and Man ;' but since 1684 the signature has been
either * Sodor and Mann ' or ' Sodor and Man.'
The full title of the see at the present day is
* Bishop of the Isle of Man, of Sodor, of Sodor and
Man, and of Sodor of Man,' which accentuates
the application of the name Sodor to Peel Island.
[SutSREY, Iceland ; Southrey, Lincolnshire ;
Sutherland.]
Nor^r (N), ' the north ;' in Northop {Nord-]>orp), ' The
North Village.' [NoRt5RA, Iceland.]
Atistr (M), ' the east ;' in Aust,* the name of a tumulus
near Ramsey. An urn has recently been discovered
there. [Austacre Wood, Lincolnshire.]
Geirr (M), 'a spear;' probably in Garwick (Geir-vik),
' Spear Creek.' Geirr is also a man's name (see
P- 293)-
Haiigi (M), ' a body hanging on a gallows ;' possibly in
Hango Hill (Hanga-holl), 'Hill of the Hanged,'
on the shore opposite King William's College ; and
Hango Broogh, ' Brow of the Hanged,' a little
further along the shore to the north. There are
remains of fortifications at both these places, that
at the former having been erected in 1642 by
James, seventh Earl of Derby, which seems to
have been used for executions. We have it re-
corded that William Christian (Jliam Dhoan) was
' shott to death ' on Hango Hill in 1662. This
interesting place, which consists of a mass of
boulder clay and drift gravel, is rapidly being
washed away by the sea.
* This is placed under prefixes instead of simple names, as it is
probably only part of the original name.