If not Gaulling!
Julian
> from: Roger Wesson <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:57:55
> to: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> subject: Re: [OM] Re: Airport X-ray
>
>
> >>
> >> IIRC, didn't William the Conqueror sail east across the English
> >> Channel in 1066? And didn't he set out from what is now Normandy?
> >>
> >> I'm having cognitive dissonance now. How can the British ruin
> >> someplace that a very significant number of them originated from to
> >> begin with? Perhaps I'm over-simplifying this. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > Yeah, it's amazing how a thousand years of intervening history can
> > "complexify" something so simple...
> >
> > Garth
> >
>
>
> Well as I understand it Guillaume and his conquerors weren't actually
> French, they were Vikings who had previously headed south for better
> weather. Normans = Norsemen. As we weren't conquered by the French we
> are perfectly entitled to ruin France!
>
> To have been conquered by the French would have been galling indeed :)
>
> Roger
>
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