naturalplastic wrote:
Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:
Aimless wrote:
Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:
And just to confuse matters further, although the Normans came from France, they were mainly descendant from Norse Vikings, who had arrived in Normandy centuries before.
One of my ancestors apparently. He went to England with William the Conqueror and got a piece of Yorkshire. My last name used to have a "de" in front of it.
Same here. Norman name, folk with that name settled mainly in SE England, then my ancestor went to Northern Ireland and my great-grandfather came to Scotland.
The columnist Roy Blount Jr.'s family name is Norman.
In a humorous little piece in the Washington post he said "Britain may have oppressed the world but if you're Anglosaxon atleast you have a connection to the English soil. We Normans oppressed the Anglosaxons which makes us the oppressors of the oppressors!"
It's also true that the Anglo-Saxons, as well as the Romans preceding them, had oppressed the Celtic Britons. Who knows which prehistoric population the Celts had oppressed.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer