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What are the differences between a Saxon village and a Norman village?
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∙ 13y ago
The main difference was that the Saxon army fought on foot, whilst the Normans used cavalry aswell as infantry. The Normans also appear to have used archers independently as a separate unit, the Saxons uses archers but these were mixed in with the rest of the army. The Saxons preferred weapon was the double edged axeand relied on round shields (bucklers) whilst the Normans used longer (kite) shields.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe people who lived in villages were mostly serfs, and since there were no Norman serfs in England, there really would not have been any Norman villages there. We might say if a village was Norman, it was in Normandy, and the serfs were all French, but if the village was Anglo-Saxon, then the serfs were all Anglo-Saxon.
The area called Saxony, where the continental Saxons lived, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and a Saxon village would have been German.
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Saxon.
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In the period between the Roman Empire and the Norman Conquest, the British Isles were invaded and settled by two tribes of people from northern Germany. These tribes were the Angles and the Saxons, and the term Anglo-Saxon refers to the language spoken by them upon moving into Britain.
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Anglo-Saxon and Norman French
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Hastings! To be picky, William's Norman forces defeated the Saxon army at Hastings. English is a mixture of Norman French and Germanic Saxon culture and language.
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The Anglo-Saxon period of English history ended with the Norman conquest in 1066.
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Anglo-Saxon
