Normans

…And she would have mentioned the Normans, who gave us dark eyes and elegant French noses, the betrayal of Bagnell Harvey on the salty islands, where she and her sister picked bidates more than a century later, slept in the shed, sang of shipwrecks and lost sailors.…

…Their aim was to make everybody subject to them and under their lordship. And so they took up arms and broke the bond of peace. And whether as a mass of infantrymen or on horseback, they proved themselves great in deeds. So that was the terrifying opening to the history of the Normans, written, Tom, in the mid-11th century by a monk called Amartas.…

…Therefore, the Normans scattered here and there throughout all the various parts of the world, making their way into numerous regions and countries, abandoning what little they had in order to obtain very much more. These people departed their homes, but they did not follow the custom of most people who go through the world, entering into the service of oth…