Origin of the name Tynwald?

[mikegunnill]

Hello:

I am researching a house in Hythe, Kent called Tynwald.  I wondered what the origin of the IOM name was? Trying to work out any connection.

Grateful for your help please?

Thank you


Mike

[KGarrad]

The Parliament of the Isle of Man is called Tynwald, and has been running continuously for over 1000 years!

(Kind of strange that the English Parliament is often called "the mother of Parliaments"?!)

It is of Norse origin, and has the same roots as Thingvellir (Iceland) - or more correctly Žingvellir - and the Norwegian Tingvoll.
The name is derived from the Old Norse word Žingvǫllr meaning the meeting place of the assembly, the field (vǫllr→wald, cf. the Old English cognate weald) of the thing.

There is an annual open-air assembly on Old Midsummer's Day; now held on 5th July, Tynwald Day.

[mikegunnill]

Thank you for your reply.  I noticed of course, you have a different spelling to me!

Mike

[KGarrad]

That was a typo! Or dyslexic fingers

(Or maybe crumbs in the keyboard?!)

[mikegunnill]

OK thank you.  I assume that there must be a connection somehow to the house name in Kent from the IOM.  It is an unusual name and spelling to use!

I am grateful for your reply

Mike

[KGarrad]

Holidays on the Isle of Man? It was a very popular holiday destination until the early 1960's.

Connections with TT (Motorbike racing)?

[mikegunnill]

This is more 1824 to 1835.  I take your point about holidays.

Mike

[jaywit]

There is a place in my neck of the woods which is thought to be a Viking meeting place with a name from the same verification.

http://www.thynghowe.org.uk/index.html

BTW I went past Tynwald in the I of M last week. I thought it would be on a hilltop which it isn't

[Skoosh]

 "Thing" is also the origin of the place-names Tain & Dingwall.  Norse rule in Scotland only ended by the defeat of Haakon IV by Alexander III at the battle of Largs then by the  annexation of Orkney & Shetland to the Scottish crown in 1468 by James III who married Margaret, daughter of the Danish king Christian I.

Skoosh.