1066: Sailing Into the Storm
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Norse Inflected Version of French
The rise of godwin's family as this important power base within england really made kanute's massive empire even more ungovernable by the time he eventually died. And it was norman influence that really helped to mediate between the two sides and maintain some sort of unity, but only temporarily, not forever. So why is normandy important, and how did it come into play? While normandy was just a term for a large region of northwestern france, on the english channel, close to england,. had also, been raided and attacked and eventually colonized by vikings.
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