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France It recounts two campaigns in England by the founder Rollo and a series of stirring political military and religious events on the Continent most notably the dreadful murder of Rollo's son William and the kidnapping escape and precarious early career of Dudo's first patron Count Richard IThe author's exuberant imagination is matched by his language so presenting the unwary reader with difficulties
Summary Dudo of St uentin History of the Normans Translation with Introduction and Notes
This is the first English translation of a powerful work of semi imaginary history which gave the Normans a past present and future at the outset of their triumphant century Completed in or soon after 1015 by a visiting French scholar it is a study in verse and prose of one family's rise from defeat and exile in the world of the heathen Vikings to an honoured place among the great territorial rulers of
Summary ¹ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ´ Dudo
Which ERIC CHRISTIANSEN notes and discusses throughout defining and explaining the many poetic metres and prose embellishments used and identifying the sources of numerous borrowings; he also re examines and collates the manuscripts and printed versions of the text and considers the most recent scholarship in the fieldThe late ERIC CHRISTIANSEN was Fellow of New College and University Lecturer at Oxfor
Read selections; if you actually want to learn about history with women included skip Dudo and read the Norman chronicle by Wace