There is no soc.culture.norman (which should tell you something) so
I've crossposte this to soc.culture.french. Absent a discussion
of woodworking, perhaps future athors will drop rec.woodworking
from the distribution.

Dave Hinz wrote:


They didn't join the French culture. They didn't speak French. They
kept their Nordic naming conventions. The attacked in conjunction with
the Norwegian vikings. Other than language, culture, and alignment,
sure, I guess you could call them French. (sheesh)


So what was Guillaume's Nordic name?
Guillaume's invasion had the blessing of the Pope so surely you will
not
claim that they had not adopted the French religion. After the
invasion,
English picked up a lot of 'Norman French' words which seems improbable
if the Normans's didn't speak it either. The Dukes of Normandy swore
fealty to the Capetian Kings of France as did the Gaulic Lords.

The Norman French who invaded England were more French at that time
than the Americans who won the Revolutionary War were American at
that time.

'Americans' TODAY are still less American than those Norman French
were French.

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FF