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The Normans were the people who in the 10th and 11th centuries gave their name to Normandy, a region in France. The Norman dynasty had a major political, cultural and military impact on medieval Europe, conquering England in the 11th century and founding the Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th.
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She straightened and crossed her arms. “I can’t sleep with you,” she blurted.
… “As you please.”
“As you please?” She stepped back, the rough wood of the bench bumping her upper calf. She’d braced herself for a battle and now felt oddly deflated. “You aren’t going to try to talk me into it?”
“I need not talk women into lying with me.
”
― Must Love Chainmail
― Must Love Chainmail
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It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these new countries, where both English and French are intertwined again, it is as if English were bathing itself in the fountain of its own youth, and as if French were remembering the buried treasures it had thought forgotten.
”
― Luminous Chaos
― Luminous Chaos
