Well, you're Norman.

And a fine decoration it will be, my bold Norman beauty.

That's a Norman inn.

Made out of oak.

And I hope some Norman sword whittles you down to size!

Blue Eyes, Black Hair ) La Pute de la côte normande , Les Éditions de Minuit, 1986.

The national animals of the island of Guernsey are the donkey and the Guernsey cow.

637), and the so called Anglo Norman Resurrection belongs also to continental French.

But it's a shame that I'm a Norman after seeing the things my fellow countrymen have done to England.

The Normans' conquest of England had a great effect on the English language.

The Norman victory over England had a big impact on the English language.

Population History In the Middle Ages, Damville was important for its situation on the Norman border.

The judgments of the Exchequer, the main court of Normandy, were declared final.

For a little while around that time it was the seat of a bishopric.

Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile , 2 vol.

History Of far greater importance, however, are the works which constitute Anglo Norman historiography.

It was a narrow one, consisting of a ground floor andtwo floors above, in the Rue Belle Normande.

300 years later, in 1066, the Norman conquest brought war again to the British Isles.

And I'll illustrate that five point framework by the extinction of the Greenland Norse society.

The earliest part of the building is the Norman doorway opening in from the later south porch.

Around 1139 he refounded the collegiate church of Wareham as a priory of his abbey of Lyre, in Normandy.

Biography Born in Barneville la Bertran, Calvados as a member of the noble family of Le Jumel de Barneville.

Bayeux Cathedral ( Cathédrale Notre Dame de Bayeux ) is a Norman Romanesque cathedral, located in the town of Bayeux.

Jersey Legal French is not to be confused with Jèrriais, a variety of the Norman language also called Jersey Norman French, spoken on the island.

Status The Pays de Caux is one of the remaining strongholds of the Norman language outside the Cotentin.

Biography Victor Lanoux, born Victor Robert Nataf is the son a Tunisian Jew from Sfax and a catholic mother from Normandy.

Brecqhou (or Brechou ) is one of the Channel Islands, part of Sark and part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

Though Guiscard would die the next year and the Norman threat would quickly disappear, a scapegoat was needed at that moment.

The river Eaulne is one of the rivers that flow from the plateau of the eastern Pays de Caux in the Seine Maritime département of Haute Normandie in northern France.

The Rouvre is a river in Lower Normandy, in the Orne département, a tributary of the Orne.

This strategic site was where the local Kings of Osraige had their chief residence before the Norman invasion.

Saint Helier ( French language Saint Hélier , Jèrriais Saint Hélyi ) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel.

The most flourishing period of Anglo Norman literature was from the beginning of the 12th century to the end of the first quarter of the 13th.

After the Roman withdrawal and Saxon conquest, the focus of settlement shifted to the confluence of the Irwell and Irk sometime before the arrival of the Normans after 1066.

Four of the churches that are of special interest are St Mary de Lode with a Norman tower and chancel, and a monument of Bishop John Hooper.

The Anglo Norman poem on the Life of Richard Coeur de Lion is lost, and an English version only has been preserved.

Access to the commune is by the D131 road from Croisilles in the south west which passes through the heart of the commune and the village before continuing north east to Urville.

The castle of Flers became the headquarters of count Louis de Frotté, one of the leaders of the Normandic Chouannerie.

Andrew Lang, in 1900, wrote that with Alexander , Celtic domination ends with David, Norman and English dominance is established .

History 13th century Caerphilly Castle was built in the second half of the 13th century, as part of the Anglo Norman expansion into South Wales.

Satire The popularity enjoyed by the Roman de Renart and the Anglo Norman version of the Riote du Monde ( Z. f. rom.

During the Norman invasion of Connacht in the 1230s, Galway fort was captured by Richard Mor de Burgh, who had led the invasion.

The dusty high road layacross the plain of Normandy, which, by its gentle undulations, dottedwith farms embowered in trees, wears the aspect of an endless park.

As a result of Henry's expansion, St Peter ad Vincula, a Norman chapel which had previously stood outside the Tower, was incorporated into the castle.

The body of Tudwal, a Breton Saint, is believed to have been brought to Laval in 870 or 878, during a Norman invasion in Brittany.