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Then followed a period of anarchy until 1113, when
Olaf Bitling, son of Godred Crovan, was elected king
of Man. His youth had been spent at the court of
Henry I. of England; he married the daughter of
Fergus, lord of Galloway, a granddaughter of Henry I.,
and reigned in peace for forty years, strengthening his
kingdom by alliances. His daughter married Sumarlidi
(Somerled), the Gallgael lord of Dalir (Argyll),
ancestor of the Macdonalds of the Isles, and partisan
of the romantic adventurer Malcolm mac Eth, who
had been a monk of Furness Abbey under the name
of Wymund (Vémund) and threw Scotland into confusion
by his claims and attempts. After Olaf Bitling’s
death his son and successor, Godred, came into collision
with Sumarlidi, and by the naval battle of 1156
was forced to surrender part of his kingdom of the
Isles. Two years later Sumarlidi invaded Man ;
Godred fled to Norway, but returned after a six years’
absence to hold his throne until 1187, when he was
succeeded by his son Ragnvald.
The division of the Isles left Man in possession of
the northern Hebrides, whereas those from Ardnamurchan
Point southward remained in the hands of
the Argyll family, first under Dubhgall and then under
Ragnvald, Sumarlidi’s sons. Consequently in 1187,
King Ragnvald of Man held Man and the northern
isles, while King Ragnvald of Argyll held the central
part of the whole group. Galloway in 1160 ceased to
be independent ; Malcolm of Scotland reduced it to
the condition of a province, as he also reduced Moray,
where he expelled the Viking or Gallgael inhabitants
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