Description
The Normans - Descendants of the Vikings who were admitted to the Frankish Empire in 911, who adopted Christianity and quickly acculturated. They named the area Normandy after their origins. The second identification of the Normans with the inhabitants of Scandinavia from the end of the 8th to the 11th century, which only exists in German, comes from the terminology of the Carolingian authors, who called the Vikings who invaded in the 9th century "Nordmen". In historical research, as well as in French and English, however, a distinction is made between Normans and Vikings. Wood engraving, published in 1883.