When A Country was Remade
Every time you say "sorry" instead of "pardon," or "cow" instead of "beef," you're speaking a language that was forged in blood almost a thousand years ago. This week, we're finishing our Norman Conquest series with castles, swamp battles, a hero disguised as a potter, one of the darkest atrocities in English history, and the reason you talk the way you talk. Sources & Further Reading
Primary chronicles:
Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History (trans. Marjorie Chibnall)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (trans. Michael Swanton)
William of Poitiers, Deeds of Duke William
Gesta Herewardi & Liber…
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