By Elisabeth Van Houts
This booklet presents a variety from the considerable resource fabric generated via the Normans and the peoples they conquered. It takes a large eu point of view at the Normans, assessing and explaining Norman growth, their political and social association and their eventual decline. The Normans in Europe explores: the method of assimilation among Scandinavians and Franks and the emergence of Normandy; the inner association of the principality with a number of resource fabrics from chronicles, miracle tales and chapters; the function of girls and kids in Norman society; and a number of different parts.
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2] But while carrying out their expulsions and dismissals, they used to offer sacrifices in worship of their god Thor. They did 35 Dacia is the Latin name for the Roman province which comprised modern Romania and Transylvania. VanH_1 27 12/5/00, 1:52 pm THE NORMANS IN EUROPE 28 not make him an offering of sheep, nor cattle, nor wine, nor grain, but honoured him with human blood, considering it the most precious of all sacrifices. For this, a prophetic priest chose victims beforehand. They were cruelly struck on the head with one strike from an ox-yoke and then one of the battered heads was singled out by lot for one extreme and final blow.
And when after some time he had been christened, he died with his realm in excellent order, which he left to his son and successor, named William, then in the flower of his youth. 8 The Miracles of Coutances The history of the church of Coutances was written in the first quarter of the twelfth century by Canon John, whose father Peter had been chamberlain in the time of Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances (1048–93). For the early postviking period of the diocese this biography of Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances is our only narrative source.
We give and grant this abbey of which the main part lies in the area [pagus] of Méresais on the River Eure to Saint-Germain and to his monks for their upkeep, except that part of the abbey [‘s lands] which we have granted to the Normans of the Seine, namely to Rollo and his companions [comitibus], for the defence of the kingdom [pro tutela regni] … 4 Dudo of Saint-Quentin, History of the Dukes of the Normans Dudo of Saint-Quentin wrote his History of the Dukes of the Normans over a period of several years.