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  Normans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 911, Charles the Simple, king of France, granted the invaders the small lower Seine area, which expanded over time to become the Duchy of Normandy.
The invaders were under the leadership of Hrolf, who later became known under his latinized name Rollo who swore allegiance to Charles the Simple.
The Norman people adopted Christianity and the Gallo-Romance language and created a new cultural identity separate from that of their Scandinavian forebears and French neighbours.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Normans   (1817 words)

  
 The Chants of Old Heroes, Singing in our Ears by Steve Tompkins
So potent is it, that while the older southern imagination has faded for ever into literary ornament, the northern has power, as it were, to revive its spirit even in our own times.
The northern imagination has in fact revived its spirit past Tolkien’s times and into our own, and despite its brevity, “The Frost Giant’s Daughter” is as memorable an American contribution to “the Northern thing” in modern fantasy as Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword and Hrolf Kraki’s Saga.
But now we know that beneath what is apparently boreal in the story, there lurks the austral-tales told by Greeklings.
www.rehupa.com /tompkins_chants_of_heroes.htm   (5044 words)

  
 Penguin Classics: Resources - Classics Links
The Literary Encyclopedia - an authoritative, up-to-date reference work written by named scholars most of whom are current university teachers.
Further information and background for the Penguin Classic, The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki.
An authoritative guide to poetry across the English-speaking world.
www.penguinclassics.co.uk /nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,50076_1_6,00.html   (858 words)

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