The Rest Is History · 2025-03-24 · 56 min · 9,643 words

550. The Road to 1066: Rise of the Normans (Part 3)

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The end of France there is a plain filled with woods and fruit trees. In this narrow place, there lived a great number of very tough, strong people, the name of whom Was Normans. Such were their numbers, that in time, as the population grew, the fields and orchards of Normandy proved insufficient to keep them all fed. Therefore.

The Normans scattered here and there throughout all the various parts of the world. Making their way into numerous regions and countries. Abandoning what little they had, and In order to obtain very much more. These people departed their homes.

But they did not follow the custom of most people who go through the world. Entering into the service of others. Rather. Like warriors of old. Their aim was to make everybody subject to them and under their lordship. And so they took up arms and broke the bond of peace, and whether as a mass of infantrymen or

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