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​​Children of the Norman Conquest

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Do You Have a Different Approach to the History of the Norman Conquest?

The children of the goblinson family get very, very scanty mentions in english sources. So we have to look at sources from scandinavia to kind of fill in the gaps there. Some people maybe didn't want their stories told, or weren't sure how to tell these stories in a country which was under norman rule and changing so rapidly. It affected england's relationship with other parts of europe, obviously normandy, but also where the normans were active. And then kind of increasingly, england andScandinavia would start to draw apart as england falls into the norman orbit.

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