As a Londoner of 60 years I can recommend this guy to other yanks.bHe's right on the money and his commentary is respectful, knowledgeable and without hyperbole. Stout effort.
1066. Saxons lost to the vikings(fulford),won against the vikings(Stamford bridge) and lost to the normans. Pretty interesting year. Harold's relationship with his brother tostig fell apart when the north rebelled against tostig because tostig as collecting taxes due. Harold went against his brother and then tostig decided to get the vikings to invade. Harold chose the unity of the country instead of his brother,and it cost dear.
After 200 years, the Nor(se)mens were basically Frenchmen, culturally, linguistically, familiarly, architecturally and militarily . As a proud Anglishman, I hate the Norman Conquest but classing it as a 'Viking' invasion is sheer cope.
FYI: May I suggest a (free-of-charge) visit to All Hallows By The Tower, which is a church about 100 yards from the Tower of London ticket offices. That church has, amongst other things, a bit of history related to the USA and is possibly worth a visit. There are also loos there, which saves spending 50p at the loos by the car park entrance (unless you go to the Starbucks). Across the street is the Hang, Drawn & Quarter boozer which has some rather graphic drawings on that rather grisly execution method!!!!
King Harold was Danish so basically he was a Viking. Although he was born in England, he was part of the Danish dynasty beginning with King Cnut also known as Canute.
Sort of, the Anglo Saxon elite could certainly rightly be regarded as Anglo-Danish by Hastings. Harold's Mother Gytha Thorkelsdatter was indeed, as the name suggests, of Danish extraction. However, the connection to King Canute is via Gytha's sister in law. Gytha's brother, Ulf, married Estrid Svensdatter - the Sven in question being Sweyn Forkbeard, first Danish King of England, who was the FATHER of Canute. Harold was connected to the Danish royal family by marriage, not by blood. Estrid's son Sweyn 2nd Estridsson [Harold's cousin] became King of Denmark in 1047 by virtue of being Forkbeard's grandson, founding a dynasty that ruled Denmark till 1412. Had the Norman invasion failed, and England remained in the Scandinavian orbit, history could have been very different - notably we'd probably be speaking a language close to Dutch.
"Basher Bill" (William the Conqueror) defeated the Anglo-Saxon king Harold - not Vikings. In fact he himself was a descendant of Vikings that settled in that part of France in the 9th and 10th centuries - "Norman" is a contraction of "Northman" or "Norseman"!
It's likely that the Normans were behind the Viking raids that took place around the South coast of England in the years before William invaded. The Normans allowed the Vikings a base and to shelter along the River Seine. It was a convenient way of keeping up the pressure and destabilising the English state and one of the first recorded examples of "state sponsored terrorism".
True but by the 11th century the 'Norsemen' had been well and truly Francofied/Latinised. Not just in language, culture, dress, custom, architecture but also in warfare, as noted by their use and mastery of heavy cavalry. I am English and hate the fact that the Normans won, -changing- awrixling our English tongue -considerably- hidgeberly and stealing OUR English lands - held to this very day. However, English folk who try to write off the Normans as a Viking people are just employing 'cope' because they find it too galling to admit that a French people defeated, invaded and (still) rule us. But they did. As I said before, after 200 years, the Norsemen had assimilated almost 100% into French custom and culture They were French. As much as many people today say that our Royals and aristocrats are 'English', despite their descent from the Normans. Normans ut ut ut!
Love your take on things. Next time you’re over, come visit Bath. It’s a beautiful city with stunning architecture and only 80 minutes from London by train.
That's a lot of history in one place! Even for us urban Brits it's a culture overload going to London as a sightseer, keep up the good work, lots of short videos or maybe longer ones if you can manage. 🤠
Wow. An American informing me (an Englishman) about something about England (The Tower) that I didn't know. The names of the Ravens. Good job, Redneck.
Loving your visit already; it's always heart-breaking when a respectful foreigner comes to this country: there's so much to see and you (y'all) always have such little time. If you're still in the UK can I recommend you visit York - one of our lovelier cities.
I hope you went into the white tower, very huge exhibition, a lot of middle miss it and just go into the Tower of London to see the Crown Jewels, but there's so much more to see than the crown jewels.
In the iron age the mound on which the tower was later built was beleived to be the burial place of Bran the raven god, which is why the ravens are still there and hence the nearby Bran gate.
Hi Cody, you just popped up on my feed, new sub from way north of London, I live approximately halfway between Manchester and Liverpool in a town called Wigan (well worth a read on wiki).
Very interesting seeing through your eyes and thoughts. I wondered if you had looked into your own ancestry and had any British or Irish heritage from 500 or so years ago?
It was the domestic Saxons under King Harold that William the Conqueror defeated. A three weeks before, it had been Harold that had defeated the Vikings, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on September 25, 1066, and then he had to force-march his army down to meet the new threat of William's invasion force, and in what was a close run thing, was defeated at the Battle of Hastings on 14th October 1066. It was to prove catastrophic for the Saxon nobility, who were essentially dispossessed of their lands which William used to pay off the Norman barons who had supported him. There was also a period of what amounted to genocide in the North of England where resistance to William continued for some time in what is called the "Harrying of the North" where he used "scorched earth" tactics to suppress it. There followed mass famine and some contemporary records reveal that as much of 75% of the population either died or relocated elsewhere. . In the following period, many Norman castles were built, but those weren't for the defence of England; they were primarily their to keep the local Saxon population under control.
I have never managed to make it into either the Tower of London or the British Museum, despite living in the country for 56 years. Waited in line at both, twice, and the stopped admitting before I made it to the front. I guess it was just not meant to be.
William the conquerer was actually a viking himself, or atleast was descended from them. Normandy wasnt really comsidered as part of france but as its own country. The vikings did attack the north of england in the same year, but harold godwinson defeated them at the battle of Stamford bridge. Godwinson then marched the length of england to fight the normans, and after almost winning that aswell, his army got carried away and chased the normans into low ground, where william and his norman army then turned around and defeated the saxon king.
I have some time for William the Conqueror. Being married to a descendant of Alfred the Great, he had a better right to the throne than Harold II, who was a usurper and not part of the House of Wessex. (And his son Henry I, by marrying the Lady Edith of Scots - whose mother was of the House of Wessex - kept the descent from the former kings.) He also abolished slavery in England, which was very important later on. At first there wasn't too much opposition from the English, but Saxon and Norman fell out. You didn't cross William; and he overreacted in the 1070s when he destroyed quite a bit of northern England in 'The Harrying of the North'. He was also rather after the money, and he made a grand survey of all of England in 1086. People felt this was like the reckoning would be at the Day of Judgment, the 'Day of Doom'; thus the book produced of the survey is called 'Domesday Book'. (Still pronounced 'doom'.) This book has survived, and is in the Public Record Office at Kew, London. So most villages and towns in England are recorded to back then at least.
I have a couple of problems with your argument the first being that the Anglo Saxons did not operate a system of succession of kings based on inheritance or the strength of one's relationship to a dynastical line. Although the relationship to the former monarch might make someone a possible candidate for the crown Anglo Saxon kings were ultimately approved/elected by the nobility. Edward I had no direct descendent and Harold Godwinson was legitimately appointed and crowned by his peers as King of England on the basis that he was the "best man for the job". This is why when William Duke of Normandy claimed that Edward I had named him as his successor - the simple answer was that the crown of England was never Edward's to give. An English king might offer advice who his successor might be but the English people were not obliged to follow that advice. It is certain the Edward I did name Harold Godwinson as his successor but we have only William's word that Edward I named him. There is no evidence of Harold "usurping " the crown as you say he did he had the full support of his Earls and his people. It is rather ironic when one thinks that it was actually the Normans who introduced our present concept of Royal succession by right of inheritance to England when their first king would have been debarred from succession by virtue of his own illegitimacy . As you probably know William was famously know as "William The Bastard" his mother being the daughter of a stableman. Little wonder that William was so keen to present himself as being Edwards "legitimate" successor when in fact he poor chap was actually far from it. It was widely known at the time that it was extremely dangerous for anyone whether they be English or Norman to refer to William as "The Bastard". The keeping of slaves in Northern Europe was common place in the C11th but Anglo Saxon England could never be describes as a "slave society" in the same way that ancient Rome had been. The unfortunates who found themselves a slaves in the C11th were often POWs criminals or perhaps shipwrecked sailors. It almost became the fate of Harold Godwinson when he was shipwrecked on the coast of Normandy in 1064 before his captors realised he was of considerable value as a hostage. The Normans may have outlawed the ownership of individual slaves in England at the same time they introduced to the country a social system that was appallingly brutal and oppressive that obliterated the native Anglo Saxon society. (Only between 15,000 to 20,000 Normans actually settled in England and the great majority of the population always remained Anglo Saxon) This "new" social system came in the form of Feudalism which as you will know defined very clearly and quite brutally the relationship between the Feudal Lord and landless peasant as well as the social status of all those in between. Under Feudalism the life of the landless peasants who formed the majority of the population was very little better than slavery. Feudalism lasted in England in its "purest" form until the mid C14th when the devastation of the Black Death that caused the death nearly half of the population- both the rich and poor and that weakened its hold on society.
@@kevingray3550 That was thoroughly well researched. To add, only the people of London had some form of autonomy. The rest of the Anglo-Saxon population were little better than slaves. William the Conqueror was brutal to Anglo-Saxon England.
Guillaume le Bâtard or William 1st didn't conquer the Vikings. His conquest was ofSaxon England. Technically he was of Nordic ancestry (ergo Norman) . Almost a Viking himself.
When I moved to London, late 80's, from Africa, I used to hang out with American and Irish guys my age, about 20 ish, and used to have so much fun with them exploring London, they were much more approachable than the Brits and easier to get on with, no offence to the Brits but Londoners were notoriously aloof. Seeing this reminds me of those times. Thanks.
@@chargeriderepeat7024 I don't blame them, I guess, you're never likely to bump into someone twice and the place moves so fast there isn't time to stop for small talk usually. But I did know some lovely Londoners.
A British legend is that Britain will fall if the ravens ever leave the Tower. To this end, it's a pub truism that they are hobbled so they cannot fly.
Glad you like my country Mate but come north, because its better ! (And the beer is also much better and hell of a lot cheaper!) Admittedly London is not really like the rest of the place. It's like thinking LA (what a shit hole) is all of America.
"Anglo-Saxons" not Vikings. The Vikings had already been defeated (by the Anglo-Saxons) far to the North by the English king Harold. Who then got word that a bunch of Normans, led by William The Bastard, Duke of Normandy, had landed on the south coast and were going around claiming the throne and annoying people in general. He force marched his army south and if they hadn't been exhausted they would have shown the foreigners what was what.
Welcome to the UK Brody. So nice to hear your positive views for history and culture.
As a Londoner of 60 years I can recommend this guy to other yanks.bHe's right on the money and his commentary is respectful, knowledgeable and without hyperbole. Stout effort.
I am a Brit but even I know a Texan should never be called a Yank!
Nice Cody, history should never be forgotten
As a Londoner, I would rate the Tower by far the best "tourist attraction" and well worth a visit; not cheap but worth it.
It was saxons William the Conqueror defeated not vikings.
As a Norman, it was William who was descended from vikings.
Norman is derived from North Man
1066. Saxons lost to the vikings(fulford),won against the vikings(Stamford bridge) and lost to the normans. Pretty interesting year. Harold's relationship with his brother tostig fell apart when the north rebelled against tostig because tostig as collecting taxes due. Harold went against his brother and then tostig decided to get the vikings to invade. Harold chose the unity of the country instead of his brother,and it cost dear.
After 200 years, the Nor(se)mens were basically Frenchmen, culturally, linguistically, familiarly, architecturally and militarily . As a proud Anglishman, I hate the Norman Conquest but classing it as a 'Viking' invasion is sheer cope.
Anyone who likes early medieval history to this extent like me will always get a salute
When William the Conqueror had the Tower of London built, he incorporated the remaining Roman walls that were built in 190 - 225 AD
Lived in London for forty years. I was not aware that Tower of London, was once a Zoo.
Welcome to England, no idea how this popped up on my feed but just saying Hi from Southampton - 75 miles south west close to the New Forest
FYI: May I suggest a (free-of-charge) visit to All Hallows By The Tower, which is a church about 100 yards from the Tower of London ticket offices. That church has, amongst other things, a bit of history related to the USA and is possibly worth a visit. There are also loos there, which saves spending 50p at the loos by the car park entrance (unless you go to the Starbucks).
Across the street is the Hang, Drawn & Quarter boozer which has some rather graphic drawings on that rather grisly execution method!!!!
Keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing more.
When it said "Redneck" I thought it might be hard to understand a very strong American accent, but he speaks English really well.
King Harold was Danish so basically he was a Viking. Although he was born in England, he was part of the Danish dynasty beginning with King Cnut also known as Canute.
Sort of, the Anglo Saxon elite could certainly rightly be regarded as Anglo-Danish by Hastings.
Harold's Mother Gytha Thorkelsdatter was indeed, as the name suggests, of Danish extraction.
However, the connection to King Canute is via Gytha's sister in law.
Gytha's brother, Ulf, married Estrid Svensdatter - the Sven in question being Sweyn Forkbeard, first Danish King of England, who was the FATHER of Canute.
Harold was connected to the Danish royal family by marriage, not by blood.
Estrid's son Sweyn 2nd Estridsson [Harold's cousin] became King of Denmark in 1047 by virtue of being Forkbeard's grandson, founding a dynasty that ruled Denmark till 1412.
Had the Norman invasion failed, and England remained in the Scandinavian orbit, history could have been very different - notably we'd probably be speaking a language close to Dutch.
"Basher Bill" (William the Conqueror) defeated the Anglo-Saxon king Harold - not Vikings. In fact he himself was a descendant of Vikings that settled in that part of France in the 9th and 10th centuries - "Norman" is a contraction of "Northman" or "Norseman"!
And he got lucky.
It's likely that the Normans were behind the Viking raids that took place around the South coast of England in the years before William invaded. The Normans allowed the Vikings a base and to shelter along the River Seine. It was a convenient way of keeping up the pressure and destabilising the English state and one of the first recorded examples of "state sponsored terrorism".
William the Bastard. In every sense of the word.
Absolutely correct...from a direct descendant of those French Vikings and one of Duke Williams comrades in arms...J.deNormanville
True but by the 11th century the 'Norsemen' had been well and truly Francofied/Latinised. Not just in language, culture, dress, custom, architecture but also in warfare, as noted by their use and mastery of heavy cavalry.
I am English and hate the fact that the Normans won, -changing- awrixling our English tongue -considerably- hidgeberly and stealing OUR English lands - held to this very day. However, English folk who try to write off the Normans as a Viking people are just employing 'cope' because they find it too galling to admit that a French people defeated, invaded and (still) rule us. But they did. As I said before, after 200 years, the Norsemen had assimilated almost 100% into French custom and culture They were French. As much as many people today say that our Royals and aristocrats are 'English', despite their descent from the Normans.
Normans ut ut ut!
Laconic and well informed. Good combo.
Get yourself down to Trafalgar Square this evening to see the new year in! It’s a great atmosphere
Excellent video mate, Welcome to The British Isles ❤❤❤
Hope you enjoyed our historic sites , did you visit westminster Abbey ? 😊
Love your take on things. Next time you’re over, come visit Bath. It’s a beautiful city with stunning architecture and only 80 minutes from London by train.
Welcome to England young man.
The CGI blue sky you created is very impressive.
Born and bred Londoner here of 55 years and I loved your video. Really looking forward to all your uploads. I’m a fan ☺️
That's a lot of history in one place! Even for us urban Brits it's a culture overload going to London as a sightseer, keep up the good work, lots of short videos or maybe longer ones if you can manage. 🤠
Wow. An American informing me (an Englishman) about something about England (The Tower) that I didn't know. The names of the Ravens. Good job, Redneck.
You do it well, my friend. I just subscribed. Keep it up. UK Paul.
New subscriber here, thanks for the short, straight to the point videos.
Absolutely no BS
Love it
Loving your visit already; it's always heart-breaking when a respectful foreigner comes to this country: there's so much to see and you (y'all) always have such little time. If you're still in the UK can I recommend you visit York - one of our lovelier cities.
I'll be watching
Sounds like you’re having a lot of fun and learning many new things! Love to see it, keep it up :D
Enjoy and welcome to uk
William the Conqueror did NOT defeat the Vikings. That was King Harold 2nd.
Brilliant video. So well narrated, you are a natural. Enjoy your visit.
Great channel
Make sure you go to The Mayflower pub, Rotherhithe south London.
It is from there she set sailed.
Great boozer too.
How long you in LDN? If you fancy a free match day at Spurs hit me up. Top stuff, keep it up mate 👍
Those ravens are total divas.
I hope you went into the white tower, very huge exhibition, a lot of middle miss it and just go into the Tower of London to see the Crown Jewels, but there's so much more to see than the crown jewels.
Great to see you enjoying London, Cody,
Love this, a texan in the smoke !! This ie good watch, happy new year to you.
Cody your welcome in England any time
If you get the chance, come to Cambridge for the day, it's a 45 minute train ride
Love you positivity mate! Glad you're enjoying my home town so much.
In the iron age the mound on which the tower was later built was beleived to be the burial place of Bran the raven god, which is why the ravens are still there and hence the nearby Bran gate.
Hi Cody, you just popped up on my feed, new sub from way north of London, I live approximately halfway between Manchester and Liverpool in a town called Wigan (well worth a read on wiki).
@Cody glad you enjoyed our city.
I hope you visit The Wallace Collection. There’s loads of cool stuff in there.
I a young kid I played there and on the beach by the Thames ask a black cab to take you to the original Texas embassy pickering place .
Very interesting seeing through your eyes and thoughts. I wondered if you had looked into your own ancestry and had any British or Irish heritage from 500 or so years ago?
It was the domestic Saxons under King Harold that William the Conqueror defeated. A three weeks before, it had been Harold that had defeated the Vikings, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on September 25, 1066, and then he had to force-march his army down to meet the new threat of William's invasion force, and in what was a close run thing, was defeated at the Battle of Hastings on 14th October 1066. It was to prove catastrophic for the Saxon nobility, who were essentially dispossessed of their lands which William used to pay off the Norman barons who had supported him.
There was also a period of what amounted to genocide in the North of England where resistance to William continued for some time in what is called the "Harrying of the North" where he used "scorched earth" tactics to suppress it. There followed mass famine and some contemporary records reveal that as much of 75% of the population either died or relocated elsewhere.
. In the following period, many Norman castles were built, but those weren't for the defence of England; they were primarily their to keep the local Saxon population under control.
I have never managed to make it into either the Tower of London or the British Museum, despite living in the country for 56 years. Waited in line at both, twice, and the stopped admitting before I made it to the front. I guess it was just not meant to be.
William the conquerer was actually a viking himself, or atleast was descended from them. Normandy wasnt really comsidered as part of france but as its own country. The vikings did attack the north of england in the same year, but harold godwinson defeated them at the battle of Stamford bridge. Godwinson then marched the length of england to fight the normans, and after almost winning that aswell, his army got carried away and chased the normans into low ground, where william and his norman army then turned around and defeated the saxon king.
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Fantastic video! But the video is too short
I have some time for William the Conqueror. Being married to a descendant of Alfred the Great, he had a better right to the throne than Harold II, who was a usurper and not part of the House of Wessex. (And his son Henry I, by marrying the Lady Edith of Scots - whose mother was of the House of Wessex - kept the descent from the former kings.) He also abolished slavery in England, which was very important later on.
At first there wasn't too much opposition from the English, but Saxon and Norman fell out. You didn't cross William; and he overreacted in the 1070s when he destroyed quite a bit of northern England in 'The Harrying of the North'.
He was also rather after the money, and he made a grand survey of all of England in 1086. People felt this was like the reckoning would be at the Day of Judgment, the 'Day of Doom'; thus the book produced of the survey is called 'Domesday Book'. (Still pronounced 'doom'.)
This book has survived, and is in the Public Record Office at Kew, London.
So most villages and towns in England are recorded to back then at least.
Very interesting, but I can't say that I agree with you when it comes to William the Conqueror. He got lucky and he was a nasty piece of work.
I have a couple of problems with your argument the first being that the Anglo Saxons did not operate a system of succession of kings based on inheritance or the strength of one's relationship to a dynastical line. Although the relationship to the former monarch might make someone a possible candidate for the crown Anglo Saxon kings were ultimately approved/elected by the nobility. Edward I had no direct descendent and Harold Godwinson was legitimately appointed and crowned by his peers as King of England on the basis that he was the "best man for the job". This is why when William Duke of Normandy claimed that Edward I had named him as his successor - the simple answer was that the crown of England was never Edward's to give. An English king might offer advice who his successor might be but the English people were not obliged to follow that advice. It is certain the Edward I did name Harold Godwinson as his successor but we have only William's word that Edward I named him. There is no evidence of Harold "usurping " the crown as you say he did he had the full support of his Earls and his people.
It is rather ironic when one thinks that it was actually the Normans who introduced our present concept of Royal succession by right of inheritance to England when their first king would have been debarred from succession by virtue of his own illegitimacy . As you probably know William was famously know as "William The Bastard" his mother being the daughter of a stableman. Little wonder that William was so keen to present himself as being Edwards "legitimate" successor when in fact he poor chap was actually far from it. It was widely known at the time that it was extremely dangerous for anyone whether they be English or Norman to refer to William as "The Bastard".
The keeping of slaves in Northern Europe was common place in the C11th but Anglo Saxon England could never be describes as a "slave society" in the same way that ancient Rome had been. The unfortunates who found themselves a slaves in the C11th were often POWs criminals or perhaps shipwrecked sailors. It almost became the fate of Harold Godwinson when he was shipwrecked on the coast of Normandy in 1064 before his captors realised he was of considerable value as a hostage. The Normans may have outlawed the ownership of individual slaves in England at the same time they introduced to the country a social system that was appallingly brutal and oppressive that obliterated the native Anglo Saxon society. (Only between 15,000 to 20,000 Normans actually settled in England and the great majority of the population always remained Anglo Saxon) This "new" social system came in the form of Feudalism which as you will know defined very clearly and quite brutally the relationship between the Feudal Lord and landless peasant as well as the social status of all those in between. Under Feudalism the life of the landless peasants who formed the majority of the population was very little better than slavery. Feudalism lasted in England in its "purest" form until the mid C14th when the devastation of the Black Death that caused the death nearly half of the population- both the rich and poor and that weakened its hold on society.
@@kevingray3550 That was thoroughly well researched. To add, only the people of London had some form of autonomy. The rest of the Anglo-Saxon population were little better than slaves. William the Conqueror was brutal to Anglo-Saxon England.
Legends says that when the ravens leave the tower will fall
William beat "The Vikings" ? 😂
I like the cut of your jib. 🙂
I hope you make it to Belfast. 🖖
Some walls in there were built by the Romans, so much older.
😊i😊😊😊
You have got your history a little arse upwards but who cares. Just glad that you liked our home town.
Guillaume le Bâtard or William 1st didn't conquer the Vikings. His conquest was ofSaxon England. Technically he was of Nordic ancestry (ergo Norman) . Almost a Viking himself.
great video,but seem a bit short,have you thought of vlogging? i need mooooorrree.
William defeated Saxons, not vikings. Normans were technically vikings as well so pretty ironic
When I moved to London, late 80's, from Africa, I used to hang out with American and Irish guys my age, about 20 ish, and used to have so much fun with them exploring London, they were much more approachable than the Brits and easier to get on with, no offence to the Brits but Londoners were notoriously aloof. Seeing this reminds me of those times. Thanks.
Yes some Londoners are regarded in the UK as the most aloof and unfriendly people in Britain.
@@chargeriderepeat7024 I don't blame them, I guess, you're never likely to bump into someone twice and the place moves so fast there isn't time to stop for small talk usually. But I did know some lovely Londoners.
@@chargeriderepeat7024We're a LOT friendlier up north. 🎉
glad you had a great tri[p, but what's with all the 'THE's? London Bridge, Tower Bridge, London Zoo. the 'THE's are superfluous.
A British legend is that Britain will fall if the ravens ever leave the Tower. To this end, it's a pub truism that they are hobbled so they cannot fly.
Glad you like my country Mate but come north, because its better ! (And the beer is also much better and hell of a lot cheaper!) Admittedly London is not really like the rest of the place. It's like thinking LA (what a shit hole) is all of America.
"Anglo-Saxons" not Vikings. The Vikings had already been defeated (by the Anglo-Saxons) far to the North by the English king Harold. Who then got word that a bunch of Normans, led by William The Bastard, Duke of Normandy, had landed on the south coast and were going around claiming the throne and annoying people in general. He force marched his army south and if they hadn't been exhausted they would have shown the foreigners what was what.
Hot Daaahhhmn....Weeee Doggies....Land o Goshen.......Welcome to the home of your colonial masters,hope you have a great time.
Mate, the Normans were Vikinks...Norman = Northmen or Norsemen.
Just a bit of a critical comment (sorry) not long enough...