@creekak Wrong totally wrong.The French defeated them but the let a small handful settle and pay tax.This small settlement mixed in with the vast majority French population by 911 they were totally French in DNA language and culture.In 1066 when they conquered England they imposed the French culture and french for 300yrs was the official language of England,Modern English is 40% old French.The Frnch kings of England was also only vassals and dukes of the French Kings in France
@LiveJoyDivision actually to add on to what you said, it is because they came from the north. a north man. (norman) and i guess they just added the "dy" to make it a place.
@TheFaybee123 Why would ten people who are French dislike this? This song is about how the Fernch kicked ass. Then again, tradition is very important to the French.
"During the century and a half after the Conquest, there is no English history. The French Kings of England rose to an eminence which was the wonder of all nations (). The Conqueror and his descendants were not Englishmen: most of them were born in France: they spent their lives in France: their speech was French: every high office was for a Frenchman: every acquisition on the Continent estranged them from our population".
@Aenglaland Henry I married Matilda not because she had a small Saxon ancestry but because her father was the King of Scotland. She was techinically a Scot, which were way harder to conquer than the Anglo-Saxon. Yes, a small number of Scots managed to become part of the new order to britain but the Anglo-Saxons, themselves, were all but dispossess, maybe except for some minor Anglo-Saxons lords here and there. Henry II was more 1/4 Scot. Then Scots and Gauls are both Celts, so no difference.
@Aenglaland Hmmm... you got it all wrong. The Norman army was actually a mercenary army from all around France. Norman knights had no obligation to serve overseas. This is why William heavily used mercenaries. They became the elite of England; so no the common English were very unlikely to descend from the conquerors of England.
The Normans absolutely were French and they're described as "Franks" on the Bayeux tapestry as the French were at the time, descendents of the Frankish tribe. Normandy was French through and through in language, government, culture, military tactics, etc. It's just hard for the english to admit that just a small piece of France took over all of England and to this very day their monarch is related to William.
@RockerInWA The Normans were vikings from Germanic tribes that were allowed to settle in France. The Normans also conquered Southern France and Crete and fought all over Europe and the Middle East. While the Normans invaded England in 1066 it took a further 5 and high casualties to pacify the north. However the English did benefit as they inherited large parts of western France right down to the Pyrenees. The English Empire then spanned from the borders of Scotland right down to Spain.
@RockerInWA There was nothing of sort as "french" in this time were gascons french? The Britons? The Burgundians? THe Normans?The Flemish? No they werent they hardly consider themselfs french and most of spoke different languages or dialects! So i higly doubt that Normans were more french than other peoples of today France
They were NOT French, why? Because there was no France then, back then you would of been known as the King's man, and if any Norman sided with the Frankish King rather than William he would never return for such unloyalty.
Look at the burnings and sackings of Frankish coastal town's and Hamlet's before the occupation of England and you will see Francia were in the same boat as England. It was only the gift of Normandy and everything in it that sated the terror against the Franks.
gians like the proverbial Assyrian cohorts. The Vikings had left their chain mail shirts in their ships and were not ready to fight. It was slaughter for the Ruthless's men. Stamford Bridge is really pretty much the last hurrah of the Vikings. Oh, there were some raids after that, but it really was the last Viking army.
There were "Saxons watching his back", as you call it. If that pig William Tannerson had been intercepted at sea, the Saxon navy would have made quick work of him. If he'd come when he wanted to, he would certainly have been defeated. But the winds were wrong and he had to wait, and the Hardrada made his play then. He came down on York and defeated a Northumbrian army that tried to stop him. But he got careless and though that Harold would wait to be attacked. Harold force-marched his men and
Well, "conquering the throne" is kind of like winning at monopoly. Within the fiction of the game it makes sense, but it's still just a game.
"Rulership" is always destructive to social order, because it reduces diversity. Even if it benefited the English, it was only a victory for a short term special interest group.
Considering that most people at that time period, and in that place were of a primitive psycho-class, it would be wise to look for irrational reasoning for abiding rule.
hey this is cool video how do you make your own videos like this plz pm me what application you used for the background noise and the singing is great how did you do that too? please pm me how thanks to the person who does and to the person who doesn't i have nothing against but i would be a bit more happy if people would spend more time helping people then just ignoring them thanks.:)
The harrying of the North 1069-1070 where he butchered over 150,000 men women and children in the most atrocious manner, and the doomsday book backs that up as well.
I'll never acknowledge him as King of England though, Harold Godwinson was the very last proper monarch we ever had.
After Harold the English monarchy is null and void.
He was a Norman idiot! He wasnt French at all. If he was French he would have surrendered at Hastings. France has NEVER invaded England but England has invaded France alot!!!
They were not French!!! Its documented dickhead! The French didnt like them for being un christian. You people lkike to see them as French because while they were there they won a few battles, somthing the French are not capable of doing-the french just fucking surrender! Agincourt, potoirs i could go on, all victories by the English and all achieved in France you uneducated fucking retard! Im training to be a history teacher whats your qualification prick!
If i seem to be abrupt in my manner it is because i know what i am saying is true. Iv spent 12 years studying it so i know what i am satying is fact. The Normans in 1066 still had names (which if you want i can prove) of Scandinavian origin. They had words in their vocabulary that a Frenchman would not have understood. Also you seem to mention just Rollo (or hrolf in Scandinavian) but Normandy was also settled by vikings evicted from England by Alfred the Great 1/2
With all my respect are you sure you studied this 12 years ? Because you just said that the Normans weren't Chistians while they were... Which mes are you talking about ? Mathilde, Guillaume, Arlette, Adelaide, Jean... ? Any historians would tell you that there was no trace of vikingness (or hardly) in 1066, and that the Normans were french by all the ways
Right ok il prove it now. I never said they were not Christians, i said the French considered them bad christians! But good churchmen (i.e they built lots of churches!)Turold (Norman bishop of peterborough and ely) Osbejorn (latter osborne) robert the frisian,Richard fitz scrob i could go on but i dont have enough space.Oh just one thing though matilda,Williams wife was a Saxon decended from Alfred the Greats royal line!
Well hold on, make your mind up. Earlier you were saying we didnt win that battle, agincourt was a french victory! so what are you deciding on now? Yeah you may have won the war, it was more a case of we couldnt be bothered though and went home, not really a case of you pushing us out is it, we just decided we had more important things to fight over than normandy. Still you may have that victory. but those were pretty much the last you ever had against the English.
So that would have added to the Scandinavians in Normandy.When they won Normandy from the french do you think that they never went home to fetch freinds and family?Of course they would have done.They called themselves Normans not French, as in the same way the Saxons called themselves English even though they had mixed with celts when they arrived in 420AD.They still called themselves English though in the same way the Normans called themselves Normans!
The bayeux tapestry was created at canterbury, of course the English working on it are going to call them French! It was created by low born Englishmen and women, theyre not going to know the politics of the time are they?
@ThePhunckyOne It was created in England but ordered by Odo of Bayeux, half brother of William, you stupid fvck. The Normans controlled what it was to be written on the tapestry. That's why it's in Latin. Do you expect dirty English peasants to know Latin?
Anyways, the last of Williams sons to be king of England (Henry 1st) was the first Norman King to talk English and not French. Within living memory of the conquest the people who had come with william started to call themselves English and not Norma or even French!
Lets just get this right anyways because william was not the general people say he was. He got lucky at Hasting and thats it. If we hadnt have fought 2 battles, marched 250 miles to one battle then turned round and down the same 250 miles again to meet William we would have won no question and the Norman would be history. As it is the English thrived as a people and went on to be the most powerful country in the world, what happened to Normandy?
well it was never as powerful as when it was ruled by William. After William it just became a possesion of whichever English king was on the throne. and there the story ends. it didnt go on to great empires like the English did did it.
Remember, that the idea of "conquering" something is pretty much a fantasy. There is really nothing to conquer, but when people buy into a fantasy of being part of some nation, and of being subjects to external ruler-ship, you create a sort of imaginary territory that can be "conquered" if people decide that they've been conquered.
@Jcolinsol dude your completely correct nut the public needs something to bealive in. If they belive they own the land and that it can be conqunered, and that it even means something, well i say let them
Mm, I wouldn't make a prescriptive statement about it. Clearly certain kinds of fiction have had utility. Property rights, morality systems, etcetera. But it is the fiction of compulsory government that institutes these ideological tools and makes them degrading to the social order.
So what is really called for is informal order, voluntary order. You know, Anarchy.
Guillaume Le Conquerant (conqueror !!, he conquered Your Kingdom) aws born in Normandy, which was a former duchy of the French kingdom.
He bornt at Falaise (Calvados department).
William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans, Bretons, Flemings, and Frenchmen to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson (who died in the conflict) at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest
actualy he had to buy off revolts that were to much for him to handle, it took him ten yrs to entirly conquer England and at one point the kingdom could have split in too. Wasnt good enought to take scotland tho was he? Oh and the only reason he conquered England was because he had fought 2 major battles, walked 400 hundred miles and we still gave him a good fight. Take away the 2 battles and the 400 miles and he would have definatlt lost. Harold was the better general.
@xenomorphelv426 England is now in terrotory in old Britannia so that makes English old Romano-British? Not it doesnt just because Normandy is now in France doesnt men that normans were french. Frenchmen may I asked from where?
@xenomorphelv426 French? The Normans were French speaking Scandinavians in the North of France but they weren't French, France didn't really have it's own national identity by then.
"During the century and a half after the Conquest, there is no English history. The French Kings of England rose to an eminence which was the wonder of all nations".
Thomas Babington Macauley
Guillaume le Conquérant was the King of France's vassal. Normandie has always been very close to Paris region :)
@Guildou A quote from a 19th century historian isn't very useful, their concepts of ethnicity were based on the outdated belief of bloodlines.
Culture is far more important, and at this time "French" was a very limited culture, France as it existed was loose system of alliances of vassals, while the "French" were mainly based at a small centre around Paris.
Culturally, the Normans were far more related to their Scandinavian heritage than their French neighbours.
You're among the people who believe Normands at the time of Guillaume le Conquérant were Vikings because 6 generations before maybe 2 or 3 hundreds Vikings settled in Normandie among dozens of thousands Normans who were French speakers and considered themselves as Franks... this is very naïve.
The Bayeux Tapestry alone prove that Vikings had nothing to do with Normands at the time of Guillaume le Conquérant.
@Guildou Never said they were Vikings, I said they were French speaking Scandinavians. What you're saying is akin to saying the Normans in Italy were Italian.
And thats somthing to be proud of yeah? You revel in the fact that your ancestors robbed, raped and pilaged their way accross a country that was nothing to do with them? Maybe you should take the time to consider the losses your people suffered whilst they were still Vikings (you do know dont you that the normans were decended from french settled vikings?) and the slaughter inflicted upon you by Alfred the Great (aswel as rollo it was northmen evicted from England that helped create normandy1/2
2/2, well take that fact and multiply it by 100 then you'l appreciate the suffering forced upon them by the Norman Criminals. Normans out! Long live the Saxon English!!
the tapestry is a nice historical artifact but thats all.firstly its not a depiction of the battle of hastings its something else.secondly whers the other part to it ,i say it was delibrately cut to fit the story of the battle and as usual the unsuspecting gullibe public lap it up.but cut by whom i do not know.(the knights peloton)
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Legobob321 1 week ago
my history teacher played this and i had to find it
thejigglyorange 2 weeks ago
This kicks fucking ass
balist0 1 month ago
my ears are bleeding
delafontainebleue 1 month ago
i listened to this song this morning (english lesson) ... it's horriiiiiiiiiiiible
mougnoukoudou 1 month ago
I listened to this song back in 9th grade. Now I'm a senior in high school and still sing this song every time William is mentioned.
Berepah 2 months ago
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Berepah 2 months ago
OMG THIS SONG IS IN MY HEAD!!!! HELP!!!!
Laggiter42 3 months ago
Luv this
kinghtbunny 4 months ago
Same teknix like are we in the same class or something? XD
StealthyThinking 5 months ago
Lol my history teacher played this in class too:)
o0teknix0o 5 months ago
10 people are no normans
TadeLetsPlay 7 months ago
My Social Studies Teacher Played this and everyone was bouncing in their seats!!!....my teacher was also singing the song! it was funny :)
odisdacow 7 months ago
haha, our english teacher played this and we were laughing then we just started singing it!
TheJembo1 8 months ago
My history teacher played this in class and i just had to come find it... that's really sad isn't it
trumpettwin96 8 months ago 10
@trumpettwin96 Probably... If so im sad too -.-
Tehweirdkat 3 months ago
He was really a Norman...ie a Viking. His ancestors kicked the French before they came to England to conquer
creekak 9 months ago
@creekak Wrong totally wrong.The French defeated them but the let a small handful settle and pay tax.This small settlement mixed in with the vast majority French population by 911 they were totally French in DNA language and culture.In 1066 when they conquered England they imposed the French culture and french for 300yrs was the official language of England,Modern English is 40% old French.The Frnch kings of England was also only vassals and dukes of the French Kings in France
1stLordTheAdmiralty1 6 months ago
@1stLordTheAdmiralty1 cant you hear how this rocks? it cant be wrong.
radionr3 1 month ago
i hear this in my sleep!!!! really like this vid.
crazyinu15 9 months ago
got to admit its catchy.
ajaxthedegreaser 9 months ago
Guys, Normandy was French/Scandanavian why the hell do you think they called it NOR! mandy (northmandy)
LiveJoyDivision 9 months ago
@LiveJoyDivision actually to add on to what you said, it is because they came from the north. a north man. (norman) and i guess they just added the "dy" to make it a place.
Cattygirl101 7 months ago
@Cattygirl101 that's what I said... :L
LiveJoyDivision 7 months ago
10 people are french
TheFaybee123 10 months ago
@TheFaybee123 Why would ten people who are French dislike this? This song is about how the Fernch kicked ass. Then again, tradition is very important to the French.
clarkscoolskool 9 months ago
lol
lazorlasso 10 months ago
i freaking love this song
ambrdalt4 11 months ago
My history teacher playe this song yesterday :0
yoyogo13 11 months ago
@yoyogo13 My history teacher played this all week, last week :P too bad i love it! :D
Cattygirl101 11 months ago
@Cattygirl101 I wish my history teacher played this! I might have actually paid attention. :-/ DMX Krew should be in every curriculum.
heelandtoe33 10 months ago
hahaaaaaa well done mr awsom!!!!!! i love this song this might not be your vid tho!! LOL!!
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aceguyish 11 months ago
Ummm no I'm not I'm a angalo desent
1991bentwyning 11 months ago
sames :L
2longman30396 11 months ago
gotta love the fact this got a full play on radio 1 on sunday on annie macks and grimmy's show
and got another mention on grimmy's show last night!!!
2longman30396 1 year ago 10
@2longman30396 That's why I'm here :)
greenbayandtottenham 1 year ago
@2longman30396 that's why im here! love nick and annie!
SR120 11 months ago
@SR120 Same I listen to them all the time :D!!
2longman30396 11 months ago
the normans can go suck dick they ent here no more
1991bentwyning 1 year ago
@1991bentwyning your a descendent off the Normans you knob head
pohopify 11 months ago
good stuff
hillbilly1339 1 year ago
LOVE it. Even better when heard on vinyl through a big stack of speakers... but youtube will have to do for now. ;-)
heelandtoe33 1 year ago
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"During the century and a half after the Conquest, there is no English history. The French Kings of England rose to an eminence which was the wonder of all nations (). The Conqueror and his descendants were not Englishmen: most of them were born in France: they spent their lives in France: their speech was French: every high office was for a Frenchman: every acquisition on the Continent estranged them from our population".
Thomas Babington Macauley
gipcambero 1 year ago
normans would have fainted at this song!!!!
kayam2002 1 year ago
@kayam2002 LOL!!!! Very bad isn't it!?
Turkeysucks2010 1 year ago
this song is so nerdy but i love it lol.
donteswolf 1 year ago
Long live Guillaume!
CavllNorthNorth 1 year ago
@Aenglaland Henry I married Matilda not because she had a small Saxon ancestry but because her father was the King of Scotland. She was techinically a Scot, which were way harder to conquer than the Anglo-Saxon. Yes, a small number of Scots managed to become part of the new order to britain but the Anglo-Saxons, themselves, were all but dispossess, maybe except for some minor Anglo-Saxons lords here and there. Henry II was more 1/4 Scot. Then Scots and Gauls are both Celts, so no difference.
TemplarX2 1 year ago
@Aenglaland Hmmm... you got it all wrong. The Norman army was actually a mercenary army from all around France. Norman knights had no obligation to serve overseas. This is why William heavily used mercenaries. They became the elite of England; so no the common English were very unlikely to descend from the conquerors of England.
TemplarX2 1 year ago
i love this song
hopeandfaith09 1 year ago
The Normans absolutely were French and they're described as "Franks" on the Bayeux tapestry as the French were at the time, descendents of the Frankish tribe. Normandy was French through and through in language, government, culture, military tactics, etc. It's just hard for the english to admit that just a small piece of France took over all of England and to this very day their monarch is related to William.
RockerInWA 1 year ago
@RockerInWA The Normans were vikings from Germanic tribes that were allowed to settle in France. The Normans also conquered Southern France and Crete and fought all over Europe and the Middle East. While the Normans invaded England in 1066 it took a further 5 and high casualties to pacify the north. However the English did benefit as they inherited large parts of western France right down to the Pyrenees. The English Empire then spanned from the borders of Scotland right down to Spain.
ADZ01982 1 year ago
@ADZ01982 Viking conquests were hardly an Empire were great advantures and conquests but not an empire
ImperialGuard9001 1 year ago
@ImperialGuard9001 Retard read my comment again i was not talking about a Viking Empire.
ADZ01982 1 year ago
@ADZ01982 saxon saxon biotch
awsoume23 1 year ago
@RockerInWA It was, at the time the largest Empire Europe had seen since the Romans.
ADZ01982 1 year ago
@RockerInWA There was nothing of sort as "french" in this time were gascons french? The Britons? The Burgundians? THe Normans?The Flemish? No they werent they hardly consider themselfs french and most of spoke different languages or dialects! So i higly doubt that Normans were more french than other peoples of today France
ImperialGuard9001 1 year ago
@RockerInWA
They were NOT French, why? Because there was no France then, back then you would of been known as the King's man, and if any Norman sided with the Frankish King rather than William he would never return for such unloyalty.
Look at the burnings and sackings of Frankish coastal town's and Hamlet's before the occupation of England and you will see Francia were in the same boat as England. It was only the gift of Normandy and everything in it that sated the terror against the Franks.
Woodlander65 1 year ago
Viva le Normans!
Funloverdude 1 year ago
I Love the Song ^^ I m William the Conqueror
theninja105 1 year ago
this is amazing we allways play it in history because our history teacher allways dances to it it is soooooooooo funny xxxxxxxxxxx
juliaf1997 1 year ago
@juliaf1997 i wish i had that kind of a history teacher!
ravijojla 1 year ago
Actually French is the language of high class people
1silly98 1 year ago
can anyone tell me where i can find the lyrics for this song?
amichalap 1 year ago
@amichalap Google
OfficialShenanigans 1 year ago
william considered himself norman and hated the french
smogga09 1 year ago
'Norman saw on English oak.
On English neck a Norman yoke;
Norman spoon to English dish,
And England ruled as Normans wish;
Blithe world in England never will be more,
Till England's rid of all the four.
TheMammt 1 year ago
love the song lol.
QGprincess 1 year ago
i have her 2nd lol =)
soon2bemine4ever 1 year ago
Haha I have mrs.Herman too and I go to tuffree!! I have her 3rd period
crazycookie31 1 year ago
i have her first period! i dont have honors :p.
TheJoberry123 1 year ago
ChillAsIceCream, i go to tuffree too. which period do u have ms herman? I have her 2nd
CandAentertainment 1 year ago
i have her 1st!
TheJoberry123 1 year ago
I know me 2!!! ms herman @ tuffree
ChillAsIceCream 1 year ago
my teacher made us sing this in class today x_o
TheJoberry123 1 year ago
@TheJoberry123 lol!!!
ChocoTamiCkat 1 year ago
@TheJoberry123 us too XD
ChocoTamiCkat 1 year ago
laarvee this songg ;p
123DiamondChick 1 year ago
cool songs man this is soo cool!! doing a project on him. He is soo pro man
Mrmelikespeeps 1 year ago
gians like the proverbial Assyrian cohorts. The Vikings had left their chain mail shirts in their ships and were not ready to fight. It was slaughter for the Ruthless's men. Stamford Bridge is really pretty much the last hurrah of the Vikings. Oh, there were some raids after that, but it really was the last Viking army.
ARP7777777 1 year ago
There were "Saxons watching his back", as you call it. If that pig William Tannerson had been intercepted at sea, the Saxon navy would have made quick work of him. If he'd come when he wanted to, he would certainly have been defeated. But the winds were wrong and he had to wait, and the Hardrada made his play then. He came down on York and defeated a Northumbrian army that tried to stop him. But he got careless and though that Harold would wait to be attacked. Harold force-marched his men and
ARP7777777 1 year ago
VredesStal, look up the "Harrowing of the North" The Saxons did rise up multiple times. And guess whose laws eventually were used in England?
ARP7777777 1 year ago
The english = the peasants from france plus a few scandinavians. These days, throw in a few indians aswell.
ewhi1 2 years ago
Well, "conquering the throne" is kind of like winning at monopoly. Within the fiction of the game it makes sense, but it's still just a game.
"Rulership" is always destructive to social order, because it reduces diversity. Even if it benefited the English, it was only a victory for a short term special interest group.
Considering that most people at that time period, and in that place were of a primitive psycho-class, it would be wise to look for irrational reasoning for abiding rule.
Jcolinsol 2 years ago
French is the official language in England for three centuries (from 1066 to 1362).
AHAHAHAHAHAH
benjiAkatosh 2 years ago 3
they wernt french they were normans whitch were vikings
EnglishWatcher 1 year ago
@benjiAkatosh that's why many of us hate them *mumbles* wankers
ArthurKirklandUpload 10 months ago
@benjiAkatosh explains why us English dont like the French very much lol and its the only fight they have ever won in history hehehe lol
EnglandFirst1 10 months ago
@benjiAkatosh well thankfully we rose up from our oppressors. france however was still a fuedal state until 1789
677222 10 months ago
hey this is cool video how do you make your own videos like this plz pm me what application you used for the background noise and the singing is great how did you do that too? please pm me how thanks to the person who does and to the person who doesn't i have nothing against but i would be a bit more happy if people would spend more time helping people then just ignoring them thanks.:)
Cheesepickles22 2 years ago
xalant be my frend plzz
iiiaaakkkful 2 years ago
LMAO
DelightPage 2 years ago
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Cheesepickles22 2 years ago
LOLLOL KAINE UR A NOOB
Cheesepickles22 2 years ago
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Cheesepickles22 2 years ago
Erm, when exactly was William the king of "Britain" then? What history books have you been reading? lol
DominatorMCMLXXVIII 2 years ago
The adolf Hitler of his day.
The harrying of the North 1069-1070 where he butchered over 150,000 men women and children in the most atrocious manner, and the doomsday book backs that up as well.
I'll never acknowledge him as King of England though, Harold Godwinson was the very last proper monarch we ever had.
After Harold the English monarchy is null and void.
j0andc0 2 years ago
Here here! William the bastard, William the Norman, Duke william of Normandy but NEVER, EVER William King of England!
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
made in france. lol
xenomorphelv426 2 years ago 7
He was a Norman idiot! He wasnt French at all. If he was French he would have surrendered at Hastings. France has NEVER invaded England but England has invaded France alot!!!
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
Your superiority complex is endless... The Normans were french, get used to it, and England never invaded France
xxAdelineFcexx 2 years ago
They were not French!!! Its documented dickhead! The French didnt like them for being un christian. You people lkike to see them as French because while they were there they won a few battles, somthing the French are not capable of doing-the french just fucking surrender! Agincourt, potoirs i could go on, all victories by the English and all achieved in France you uneducated fucking retard! Im training to be a history teacher whats your qualification prick!
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
The Norman were Christians, and they were french in 1066. You will be a teacher ? how nice, but I hope you will be more polite with your pupils
xxAdelineFcexx 2 years ago
If i seem to be abrupt in my manner it is because i know what i am saying is true. Iv spent 12 years studying it so i know what i am satying is fact. The Normans in 1066 still had names (which if you want i can prove) of Scandinavian origin. They had words in their vocabulary that a Frenchman would not have understood. Also you seem to mention just Rollo (or hrolf in Scandinavian) but Normandy was also settled by vikings evicted from England by Alfred the Great 1/2
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
With all my respect are you sure you studied this 12 years ? Because you just said that the Normans weren't Chistians while they were... Which mes are you talking about ? Mathilde, Guillaume, Arlette, Adelaide, Jean... ? Any historians would tell you that there was no trace of vikingness (or hardly) in 1066, and that the Normans were french by all the ways
xxAdelineFcexx 2 years ago
Right ok il prove it now. I never said they were not Christians, i said the French considered them bad christians! But good churchmen (i.e they built lots of churches!)Turold (Norman bishop of peterborough and ely) Osbejorn (latter osborne) robert the frisian,Richard fitz scrob i could go on but i dont have enough space.Oh just one thing though matilda,Williams wife was a Saxon decended from Alfred the Greats royal line!
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
If you claim victories if the 100 years war, do not miss that the French won this war
xxAdelineFcexx 2 years ago
Well hold on, make your mind up. Earlier you were saying we didnt win that battle, agincourt was a french victory! so what are you deciding on now? Yeah you may have won the war, it was more a case of we couldnt be bothered though and went home, not really a case of you pushing us out is it, we just decided we had more important things to fight over than normandy. Still you may have that victory. but those were pretty much the last you ever had against the English.
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
So that would have added to the Scandinavians in Normandy.When they won Normandy from the french do you think that they never went home to fetch freinds and family?Of course they would have done.They called themselves Normans not French, as in the same way the Saxons called themselves English even though they had mixed with celts when they arrived in 420AD.They still called themselves English though in the same way the Normans called themselves Normans!
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
Are you blind ? They called themselves French on the Bayeux Tapestry I just typed the extract !
xxAdelineFcexx 2 years ago
The bayeux tapestry was created at canterbury, of course the English working on it are going to call them French! It was created by low born Englishmen and women, theyre not going to know the politics of the time are they?
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
You idiot! The tapestry wasn't created at Canterbury, it was created in the Land of Oz. How else do you explain the yellow, blue and red horses?
ThePhunckyOne 2 years ago 2
Clearly you are on drugs you mug!
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
@ThePhunckyOne It was created in England but ordered by Odo of Bayeux, half brother of William, you stupid fvck. The Normans controlled what it was to be written on the tapestry. That's why it's in Latin. Do you expect dirty English peasants to know Latin?
TemplarX2 1 year ago
Anyways, the last of Williams sons to be king of England (Henry 1st) was the first Norman King to talk English and not French. Within living memory of the conquest the people who had come with william started to call themselves English and not Norma or even French!
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
Lets just get this right anyways because william was not the general people say he was. He got lucky at Hasting and thats it. If we hadnt have fought 2 battles, marched 250 miles to one battle then turned round and down the same 250 miles again to meet William we would have won no question and the Norman would be history. As it is the English thrived as a people and went on to be the most powerful country in the world, what happened to Normandy?
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
"What happened to Normandy " when ? today, after the 100 years war ?
xxAdelineFcexx 2 years ago 3
well it was never as powerful as when it was ruled by William. After William it just became a possesion of whichever English king was on the throne. and there the story ends. it didnt go on to great empires like the English did did it.
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
Because Normandy is not a country !
xxAdelineFcexx 2 years ago 2
it was considered a seperate identity then so why not now?
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
What do you mean by "separate identity"?
xxAdelineFcexx 2 years ago
Remember, that the idea of "conquering" something is pretty much a fantasy. There is really nothing to conquer, but when people buy into a fantasy of being part of some nation, and of being subjects to external ruler-ship, you create a sort of imaginary territory that can be "conquered" if people decide that they've been conquered.
Jcolinsol 2 years ago 2
@Jcolinsol dude your completely correct nut the public needs something to bealive in. If they belive they own the land and that it can be conqunered, and that it even means something, well i say let them
donteswolf 2 years ago
Mm, I wouldn't make a prescriptive statement about it. Clearly certain kinds of fiction have had utility. Property rights, morality systems, etcetera. But it is the fiction of compulsory government that institutes these ideological tools and makes them degrading to the social order.
So what is really called for is informal order, voluntary order. You know, Anarchy.
Jcolinsol 2 years ago
@xxAdelineFcexx
Normandy use to be a Empire which covered much of northern europe.
The Empire split up at some point into smaller countries.
Georgelangham 11 months ago
Guillaume Le Conquerant (conqueror !!, he conquered Your Kingdom) aws born in Normandy, which was a former duchy of the French kingdom.
He bornt at Falaise (Calvados department).
William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans, Bretons, Flemings, and Frenchmen to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson (who died in the conflict) at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest
xenomorphelv426 2 years ago 15
actualy he had to buy off revolts that were to much for him to handle, it took him ten yrs to entirly conquer England and at one point the kingdom could have split in too. Wasnt good enought to take scotland tho was he? Oh and the only reason he conquered England was because he had fought 2 major battles, walked 400 hundred miles and we still gave him a good fight. Take away the 2 battles and the 400 miles and he would have definatlt lost. Harold was the better general.
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
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@xenomorphelv426 Bayeux Tapestry....
FRATRES HAROLDI REGIS. HIC CECIDERUNT SIMUL ANGLI ET FRANCI IN PRELIO.
brothers of King Harold.Here fell the English and the French simultaneously in the battle.
EUSTASIUS. HIC FRANCI PUGNANT.
Eustace. Here the French do battle.
ET FUGA VERTERUNT ANGLI
And the English fled
Note the use Of Franci for the man on William side Not norse or norman or danish etc...
But Franci
exedron 1 year ago
@xenomorphelv426 England is now in terrotory in old Britannia so that makes English old Romano-British? Not it doesnt just because Normandy is now in France doesnt men that normans were french. Frenchmen may I asked from where?
ImperialGuard9001 1 year ago
@xenomorphelv426 Before his conquest of England, he was known as William the Bastard (Guillaume le Bâtard) because of the illegitimacy of his birth.
gotta love someone named billy the bastard! i do
MrBillcale 1 year ago
@xenomorphelv426 French? The Normans were French speaking Scandinavians in the North of France but they weren't French, France didn't really have it's own national identity by then.
RedcoatMic24 1 year ago
@RedcoatMic24
Guillaume le conquérant was a French speaker, just like the English nobility of Great Britain after 1066 for more than 3 centuries.
Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard Lionheart) was speaking French, not English.
Guildou 11 months ago
@Guildou Go away.
This is a joke, for kids. We really don't care.
jonathonbartle 11 months ago
@Guildou And? Many non-English people speak English... French was one of the Lingua Francas of the age.
RedcoatMic24 11 months ago
@RedcoatMic24
You ask "and ?"
I was answering someone who said Guillaume le Conquérant wasn't Normand and wasn't a French speaker.
Guildou 11 months ago
@RedcoatMic24
You speak about Lingua Franca, you should speak of the French kings of England :)
Guildou 11 months ago
@Guildou They weren't French, they were Norman...
I already said French WAS a Lingua Franca, the Normans spoke French. Where's your point?
RedcoatMic24 11 months ago
@RedcoatMic24
"During the century and a half after the Conquest, there is no English history. The French Kings of England rose to an eminence which was the wonder of all nations".
Thomas Babington Macauley
Guillaume le Conquérant was the King of France's vassal. Normandie has always been very close to Paris region :)
The Normands weren't only speaking French.
Guildou 11 months ago
@Guildou A quote from a 19th century historian isn't very useful, their concepts of ethnicity were based on the outdated belief of bloodlines.
Culture is far more important, and at this time "French" was a very limited culture, France as it existed was loose system of alliances of vassals, while the "French" were mainly based at a small centre around Paris.
Culturally, the Normans were far more related to their Scandinavian heritage than their French neighbours.
RedcoatMic24 11 months ago
@RedcoatMic24
You're among the people who believe Normands at the time of Guillaume le Conquérant were Vikings because 6 generations before maybe 2 or 3 hundreds Vikings settled in Normandie among dozens of thousands Normans who were French speakers and considered themselves as Franks... this is very naïve.
The Bayeux Tapestry alone prove that Vikings had nothing to do with Normands at the time of Guillaume le Conquérant.
Guildou 11 months ago
@Guildou Never said they were Vikings, I said they were French speaking Scandinavians. What you're saying is akin to saying the Normans in Italy were Italian.
RedcoatMic24 11 months ago
@RedcoatMic24
Scandinavians were polytheists, Normands were Monotheists at the time of Guillaume.
Guildou 11 months ago
@Guildou Wikipedia - Christianization of Scandinavia
RedcoatMic24 11 months ago
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@Saxonsoldiers Bayeux Tapestry....
FRATRES HAROLDI REGIS. HIC CECIDERUNT SIMUL ANGLI ET FRANCI IN PRELIO.
brothers of King Harold.Here fell the English and the French simultaneously in the battle.
EUSTASIUS. HIC FRANCI PUGNANT.
Eustace. Here the French do battle.
ET FUGA VERTERUNT ANGLI
And the English fled
Note the use Of Franci for the man on William side Not norse or norman or danish etc...
But Franci
exedron 1 year ago
His descendents rule until this day.
Thor13332 2 years ago
i want to downloud it
you rock we watch this in class
gabriel25gatens 2 years ago
lol
faverited
gabriel25gatens 2 years ago
this should say Englands first Norman king not Britains but hay us English are the only ones in the UK that call Our selfs British so the song rules
TheEnglishrepublican 2 years ago
this is sooo cool
brooks3595 2 years ago
nice song
EUsoldier0 2 years ago
this song is frikken awsome but i like wierd music
POSSESSEDFERRET 2 years ago
thanks
KingdomHerts4ever30 2 years ago
i can trace my family tree to this guy my family helped him conquer england .
ovadafone 2 years ago
And thats somthing to be proud of yeah? You revel in the fact that your ancestors robbed, raped and pilaged their way accross a country that was nothing to do with them? Maybe you should take the time to consider the losses your people suffered whilst they were still Vikings (you do know dont you that the normans were decended from french settled vikings?) and the slaughter inflicted upon you by Alfred the Great (aswel as rollo it was northmen evicted from England that helped create normandy1/2
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
2/2, well take that fact and multiply it by 100 then you'l appreciate the suffering forced upon them by the Norman Criminals. Normans out! Long live the Saxon English!!
Saxonsoldiers 2 years ago
this is norman country,the saxons are welcome here tho considering normans and saxons are both germanic peoples
lee88614 2 years ago
norman bates calling you to have germanic sex session
raped blonde ass you are!! a dead living scared worm with lies as belief i promisse i will keep away any harm from you if you become my bitch
hdp26 2 years ago
Th saxons genocided the celts of england and brought a culture that was destroyed itself 6 century later by the french culture thanks to the normans
gipcambero 2 years ago
Nonsense. If anything, the Norman-French destroyed themselves. Is le Droit de seigneur, or French law practiced in England?
ARP7777777 1 year ago
Bah the normans, oh well interesting history i must say i quite enjoyed doing it.
TheSecondCrash4563 2 years ago
when i here this song, my brother says it sounds like a big ape is singing!! he is mean...
sammy2430979 2 years ago
Yeah, My teacher did a whole unit on the Beyeux tapestry and every morning she had us sing along with this movie.
weaslby 2 years ago
lol same school watch such stupid stuff
idunky 2 years ago
does anyone else think this song is creepy?
zzaf11193 2 years ago
well if u think bout it williams dead so its like a ghost is singing it lmao
RappinGenius913 2 years ago
but it the DMX crew oh im goin to go crazy lmao
RappinGenius913 2 years ago
haha!! our teacher showed us this!! its hilarious!!
blueswirl96 2 years ago
lol mine did too lol i no we were learnin about william and that and he showed it us lmaoo i cudnt stop laughin
RappinGenius913 2 years ago
i kno!! my teacher showed it the second time and my class sang along!!!!!!
blueswirl96 2 years ago
love it! lol
whyohwhyohwhyyou 2 years ago
yes but the actaul battle of Hastings was in October, He left France late September and in those days they didn't have super fast ships.
bigbob59gb 3 years ago
the tapestry is a nice historical artifact but thats all.firstly its not a depiction of the battle of hastings its something else.secondly whers the other part to it ,i say it was delibrately cut to fit the story of the battle and as usual the unsuspecting gullibe public lap it up.but cut by whom i do not know.(the knights peloton)
daviesball11 3 years ago
what is this song called/ does any body know if the song is on itunes?
great song, cool tapestry too, how long is it approximately
weaslby 3 years ago
if you mean the tapestry i heard its about 2 swimming pools long
unclejimmybobrules 2 years ago
thanx
weaslby 2 years ago
That's true. It's about 70m long.
tigerlivie 2 years ago
yo we heard it in history and thanx i passed the test
honestbender3000 3 years ago
Ha Lol
So Did We
(By the way its Vickii :P)
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ErnieAndTeddy 3 years ago
this song helped me pass a history test
lennonisdashiz 3 years ago