Re: Have you always dreamed of become a high payed consultant?

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Alistair Maclean <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote

> >However, you forget that the French DID conquer England in 1066 
> Definitely wrong. Normans were not French as there was no such thing at
> that time (apart from some vague notional concept). 

The people in most of, what is today, France were Francs, but the
Normans were not these, as you say, they were Normans: men from the
North, Vikings, Danes and Norweigens mostly, who had taken root in
many places around Europe including Yorkshire and Northumberland.

William was cousin to Edward the Confessor and of Harald Hardrada of
Norway (who invaded England a couple of weeks before William and lost
the Battle of Stamford Bridge).

The Francs never conquered England, it was just more Vikings.
 
> >They love me in Quebec when I talk about how my ancestors licked the Anglo 
> >Saxons at Hastings.

Yeah, well the Francs are like that. I'd better not elaborate.  ;-)