In 1776 Thomas Paine wrote in ‘Common Sense’ that the invaders were a group of ‘armed banditti’ and that the ‘French bastard’ William was ‘the principal ruffian of some restless gang’. The near contemporary Shropshire-born Anglo-Norman monk and historian Orderic Vitalis said that they ‘mercilessly slaughtered the native people, like the scourge of God smiting them for their sin’. If the succession runs in the line of the conqueror the nation runs in the line of being conquered and ought to rescue itself – Thomas Paine ‘The Rights of Man’Īfter the Normans and other Frenchmen arrived in England in 1066, the chronicler of Evesham Abbey called them ‘ravening wolves’. In King William’s twenty-first year (1087) there was scarcely a noble of English descent in England, but all had been reduced to servitude and lamentation – Henry of Huntingdon So foreigners grew wealthy with the spoils of England, whilst her own sons were either shamefully slain or driven as exiles to wander hopelessly through foreign kingdom – Orderic Vitalis Forne Sigulfson – The ‘first’ lord of Greystoke in CumbriaĬourt-centered history is not an adequate medium for recovering the past, even in England – William Kapelle.Ravening Wolves -The French hostile take-over of Lancashire.The Parable of the Old Man and the Young.Gytha of Wessex – An Anglo-Saxon Russian Princess.Dunmail ‘the last king of Cumbria’ – The Legend.Why is the French language so irritating if you’re English?.Seeking Revenge – The English Varangian Guard at the Battle of Dyrrhachium in 1081.Exile rather than servitude – the English leave for Constantinople.Black Slaves, White Slaves – The World According to Captain Hugh Crow.King Harold’s sister Gunnhild and a Belgian museum.The Oaths of Strasbourg – What’s in a language?.
The first Scandinavian settlers in North West England.Why can’t we still speak like that? – The Old English Poem ‘The Battle of Brunanburh’.Armed Banditti, Love-Days and Kisses of Peace.The British retreat to Burgundy in A.D. 469.North Meols and the Scandinavian settlement of Lancashire.The Parable of the Old Man and the Young.Heinrich Heine’s “Battlefield at Hastings”.Genealogical and genetic ancestry – what’s the difference?.The grand old Duke of York, he slaughtered ten thousand men.Óttar’s Story – A Dublin Viking in Brittany, England and Ireland, A.D. 902-918.Ravening Wolves -The French hostile take-over of Lancashire.William Longbeard – Popular Agitator or Dangerous Demagogue?.Edith Forne Sigulfson – King Henry’s Mistress.Dirt-Eating Slaves and Impressed Sailors.Gytha of Wessex – An Anglo-Saxon Russian Princess.
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