What are the differences between a Saxon village and a Norman village?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

The 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.