It does take some unravelling!Normans - feudal, rapacious with the shittiest haircuts ever & lead by an illiterate, bullying thug (who died alone, unloved & without dignity).Whereas the English were lead by a literate, educated, tri-lingual, cultured man (Mrs William supposedly was "attracted" to him), described by his enemies (the defeated Norwegians) as one of the most chivalrous knights in Christendom!All that & a decent haircut.And we still loath our French aristocracy.Come back the Danes!
@Insperato62 Unfortunately Harold was a better knight than general. If he'd held off engaging William until fresh levies came up, instead of using the exhausted troops that he'd force-marched across England from Stamford Bridge, it might have been a different story. But he wanted to spare the people of the southeastern shires from the ravages of William's army as quickly as possible.
@Insperato62 The Norman haircuts were hairdcuts for men not haircuts for girly boys.Our cousins the Danes (We Normans have a lot of Danish blood) ravaged the English all the time and owned them. The father of Harold murdered the brother of Edward the Confessor and the Godwin family bullied their way to power. The Anglo-Saxons attacked the great Harold of Norway at stamford bridge when the Norwegians were not even ready for battle. We Normans conquered the English as we did S-Italy & Sicily, easy
@LaNormandieLibre Normans weren't French,Normans were Normans,a mixture of Vikings and French,which left them with the strength and brutality of a Viking and ability of swordsmanship of a French.
The Vikings are Normans?
-Confusion-
chica476 6 months ago
Normans were a great people.
AuxaneD 8 months ago 2
It does take some unravelling!Normans - feudal, rapacious with the shittiest haircuts ever & lead by an illiterate, bullying thug (who died alone, unloved & without dignity).Whereas the English were lead by a literate, educated, tri-lingual, cultured man (Mrs William supposedly was "attracted" to him), described by his enemies (the defeated Norwegians) as one of the most chivalrous knights in Christendom!All that & a decent haircut.And we still loath our French aristocracy.Come back the Danes!
Insperato62 1 year ago
@Insperato62 Unfortunately Harold was a better knight than general. If he'd held off engaging William until fresh levies came up, instead of using the exhausted troops that he'd force-marched across England from Stamford Bridge, it might have been a different story. But he wanted to spare the people of the southeastern shires from the ravages of William's army as quickly as possible.
Oswulf1 1 year ago 2
@Insperato62 The Norman haircuts were hairdcuts for men not haircuts for girly boys.Our cousins the Danes (We Normans have a lot of Danish blood) ravaged the English all the time and owned them. The father of Harold murdered the brother of Edward the Confessor and the Godwin family bullied their way to power. The Anglo-Saxons attacked the great Harold of Norway at stamford bridge when the Norwegians were not even ready for battle. We Normans conquered the English as we did S-Italy & Sicily, easy
LaNormandieLibre 7 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre Normans weren't French,Normans were Normans,a mixture of Vikings and French,which left them with the strength and brutality of a Viking and ability of swordsmanship of a French.
onewhopwns 1 month ago
It came from Wikipedia blame them lol
trueblueaus1488 1 year ago
The first paragraph of your text is quite hard to read, and actually does not seem to make much sense at all...
Raph1805 1 year ago
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lagabbya 1 year ago