SC - What is "period"?--off topic

[Stefan li Rous]

> *you are kidding Right?*
> the duchy of Normandy was not "period to Western culture?"
> If Vikings weren't "period to Western culture?" then the Duchy of
> Normandy was not also
> ( why do you think it was call the Duchy of *Normandy* ( in 900 Vikings
> took it over))
> lets see most of EAST Engish lands ( you know YORK)

Well, technically the Norse who settled in Normandy were not Vikings,
at least once they had settled down. Niether were the Norse who stayed
home in Scandanavia. "Viking" is more of a job discription than a
society. To "go a-viking" was to go on these raiding/trading parties.
It is also used by some historians to indicate a particular time period
when the Norse were doing most of their voyaging.

'Norman" is from "Northmen" not "Viking".

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