That's fair, Phil. The Norsemen are all to blame :-). They did the
pillaging bit in the Northeast of England as well ...
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
www.threeshoes.net & homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 12 Mar 2007, at 16:17, Philippe Le Zuikomane wrote:
> In my defence, I'll state that the Normans were, as the name
> suggests, very much of Norse heritage. Can we now blame our
> Scandinavian members? All that warlike fierceness has to come from
> somewhere. Our Frankish tribes were peace-loving, they took over
> Roman Gaul with the best intentions, to learn more about cheese and
> wine and all that. (Andrew might interject that the Angles took
> over an area he knows and did not all end up in Britain) ;-) - Phil
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