Great Commanders

[Kingmaker]

HiHi

Am I being really mean & horrible by pointing out that Will the Conk was Norse (the Normans were Viking, Rollo I think it was claimed Normandy for them), so really nothing changed :P

William was great for no other reason than he put a little continental civilization into that daub and waddle mud hole of an island Err? Cultural attaché for all things French eh, apart from slumming it, it's something of a demotion from one of the worlds 'Great commanders' ain't it :whis:

Actually Paul we did have a few centuries of Culture behind us before William turned up; folk like The Venerable Bede (673–735), some of his scientific theories and studies (tides & phases of the Moon) stood for 1,000 years and laid the basis for Isaac Newtons work, Alcuin of York (c.735 - 804) adviser to Charlemagne, the illustrated Lindisfarne Gospels, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Beowulf an Old English heroic poem plus some other bits & bobs.

Oddly enough nothing really springs to mind for the Norman/Plantagenet period till Geoffrey Chaucer, ... but maybe we as a people should be glad of that else we would be eating snails and stuff now

All the Best
Peter