Tom Shippey: Identity Crisis

Created
Fri, 03/03/2023 - 00:00
Updated
Fri, 03/03/2023 - 00:00
In the Byzantine world, Normans were ‘Franks’, and to the Scots they were English. Like the Vikings, the Normans didn’t maintain an empire but were assimilated where they invaded. What then remains of their myth of multiple conquests?