The Normans: beyond 1066
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What Do We Know About the Carolinian Franks?
Carolinian franks had been part of charlemagne's empire. The normans made a strategic decision to ally with the people who became the capician kings of france, and that helped them to stabilize their position in the tenth century. But they're jockeying between bretons other viking groups, a franks. And the mass of the population are frankish. So ok. Were there a lot of a viking settlers living in what is now normandy, or were they settled there as a result of this nine 11 moment? Nobody really knows. When you look at place names, which is one of the few sources of evidence we have, you can
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