The Normans - The Birth of Normandy | BBC Select
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- In this clip from The Normans on BBC Select, Professor Robert Bartlett heads to the location where the province of Normandy was born.
At the start of the 10th century, Rollo of the Vikings made a deal with Charles, King of France. He swore loyalty to the king and agreed to protect him against other Viking raiders and in return was given the land between the river and the sea, creating the region we now know as Normandy. Soon a great political transformation occurred and Normandy quickly grew, becoming one of the most powerful principalities in France. The Normans also quickly moved away from their Scandinavian routes, becoming wine drinkers and adopting the French language, social structure and legal and administrative systems.
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I do miss Normandie - so much history.
Alors je le suis...
Another interesting subject, looking forward to seeing this in full
If it weren’t for the Normans the Anglophone world we know and love today wouldn’t exist.
We definitely know it, that is certain. But not love it. Anglo-Saxon, Norse, Latin, these were pure languages with logic and structure and cohesion. Then they mixed together; Anglo-Saxon into Romano-Celtic, Germano-Frankish into Gallo-Romance, Norse into Frankish Romance, and finally Norman French into Old English. The resulting bastard languages, modern English and French, are a complete linguistic mess, and sadly have been imposed on much of the world during the colonial period as languages of some kind of authority, that people from many nations had to speak to engage in society, international trade, economy, and politics. If only we could return to Latin being the international standard language, and old Celtic and Germanic being spoken across their respective territories.
@C_B_Hubbs I like English. Complex yet simple and full of nice words like house and barn
@@C_B_Hubbsfrench is quite structured, at least way more than english, for sure 😅
@@C_B_Hubbsyou could still speak latin or celtic or old english at home, mate. Nobody's forcing you to not do that, but I bet you don't 😅
Try typing your entire comment in norse or old celtic, latin is a bit easier 😂
@@506Edai nobody should be forced to learn any language, but if we are going to have an international language, let it not be the messy English or French. My point was these languages shouldn't be praised for mixing and displacing more cohesive ones which were inherent to their respective nations and cultures. So many people around the world now struggle to learn them just in order to participate in the modern global society.
I am currently studying Latin and therefore do speak it to myself at home on a daily basis as a way to practice. Altho I don't speak them, I would like the Celtic languages to be revived and less imposition of English onto the remaining Celtic regions and the Nordic countries where English is becoming as common as the native language.
Thanks.
Great short informative clip.
intriguing.
My family was de Brionne in Normandy then after 1066 became de Clare.
Do you know why your own family name changed, if it was and remained in Normandy?
*Reply to:* _"My family was de Brionne in Normandy then after 1066 became de Clare."_
@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 The Normans slowly become English and anglicized family names. Just like years earlier they gave up the Viking names after becoming Christians or French. Yes people today in Normandy with the surname Brionne are on the Clare DNA list. Also people in Northern Germany as I think we are Danish Viking.
@@abdulazizclare9545 Ah, I was getting the impression that your family _remained_ in Normandy, not that they were part of the Norman invasion of England.
That's why I asked "if it was and remained in Normandy?"
*Reply to:* _"The Normans slowly become English and anglicized family names. Just like years earlier they gave up the Viking names after becoming Christians or French. Yes people today in Normandy with the surname Brionne are on the Clare DNA list. Also people in Northern Germany as I think we are Danish Viking."_
@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 Yes if you look at Anglo Norman history they did go back and forth UK and France. My family took part in 1066 they are relatives of William I of England. The lands in Sussex a area called Clare they took the name after given many acres.
@@abdulazizclare9545 Now it all makes sense, thank you for explaining your ancestors' impact on history. It's been interesting to read.
*Reply to:* _"Yes if you look at Anglo Norman history they did go back and forth UK and France. My family took part in 1066 they are relatives of William I of England. The lands in Sussex a area called Clare they took the name after given many acres."_
Very much like a Simon Schama history story. Not a bad thing at all.
I love the Normans supernatural highlander castles called the Motte and Bailey which contains a mountain of Jord the earth mother created by earth magic created for a hall up high modelled after Valhalla and also created to see far and wide like a farseer psychic Raven lord.
I am directing blood related to sir Edmund Giles Parker de brownsholme in the year 1500. I believe these were his ancestors.?
It funny how insane we shaped all of Europe, Im Norwegian. But we were peaceful in the end. Kind of misunderstud
It’s crazy how Africans snapped the world.
Archaeology evidence states the sacred elder of Normandy heralded the title of Thor known as Bjorn which means bear indicating they are from the Thorbjorn family and not just the Thorstein family that they are from according to a sacred family tree on a rune stone and they weared a sacred Mjolnir necklace which indicates he was really invaded by Christian's that attempted to destroy or melt his Mjolnir necklace to turn it into the executioner cross known as the crucifix he also had oath rings to state he refuses to be the bane of his own kin as he opposes the puppet master that made brother the bane of brother. The oldest contradicted indigenous sources are correct the founder of Normandy is displaced after losing land and loved ones that they failed to avenge.
Mountbatten screwed up everything he touched
Norman = French
I thought the Franks were the French ? And Norman the English. I could be wrong
@@Fragoso93
nope the normans are danes who mixed with the already settled celts and franks.
the english are the angles which is a germanic tribe
@jonnyneace8928 americans speak english but you're also the second largest spanish speaking country in the world, you're all basically hispanic and irish people that speak english
the normans were literally north men from norway and denmark that spoke norman french a heavily scandinavian version of old french, not french
its like saying old english is the same as modern english old french is a completely different language compared to modern french
@@smal750the initial people before Northmens’ arrival that were living in the Neustrie area (present-day territory known as Normandy) were a mix of Celts-Gauls, Romans as well as Germanic Franks-Saxons. Similarly as in the rest of others Langue d’oïl territories (Northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg and western Rhine Germany). Danish and Norwegians Northmen intermarried with them and mainly settled in actual Cotentin, Calvados and Seine Maritime and other coastal areas like Dieppe, Eu-Le Tréport. This led to the Norman population that spread in the British Isles and in Southern Italy (Sicily).
@@francois-xaviernoro9861
there are no romans in france are you dumb
It looks like in the end it was great that the personal tribe of Thor the rebellious Northmen the freemen joined their long lost traditional Dutch trade partners of Flanders who traded with the fairest viking trade merchants of Denmark the Danish fair child that joined the Dutch in Britanny to establish peaceful alliance and to prevent friendly fire for the Dutch loved their Scandinavian trade partner who they could not be forced to fight by the Christian empire that failed to make human shield puppets out of them.
The normans spoke old french the same way modern americans speak english
its wasn't their language they merely adopted it from other people it had no cultural connection to them but much like americans with spanish the normans were surrounded by old french and they began speaking it
the united states of america is the second largest spanish speaking country in the world and has been since 2013