In that case, we can drop all that what the Brits did stuff, can't we?

And did I say they were French? Once, when I was off school, I found myself watching a history programme, in which the English spoke Old English with the proper accent, and subtitles, and bits of it were just about comprehensible. The Normans spoke what I assume was Norman-French, which was impossible to follow any of. The Scandinavian accent was so thick that it completely hid any sort of French that was uttered. I don't know how they obtained the footage.

And as for the standards of the time, they were laid down by the church (not without fault itself), and attempted to limit what we would call war crimes. By those standards, the law whereby, if a Norman were killed, and the locals did not turn over the killer, ten innocent people would be executed, fails completely.

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