From: Rick McCallister
Message: 56411
Date: 2008-04-02
> At 9:33:22 PM on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, Rick<http://ice.mm.com/user/rob/Rollo/HistoricalRollo.html>.
> McCallister
> wrote:
>
> > --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> I didn't say that it was; the 'Norman' invaders
> were by
> >> no means homogeneous in origin, [...]
>
> > How were they not homogenous? On the genealogical
> trees,
> > Rollo/Hrolf and his crew all seem to come from
> Orkney and
> > before that from W. Norway.
>
> What has Rollo got to do with it? William brought
> Normans,
> Picards, Bretons, and I don't know what all. (Not
> that we
> actually know much about Rollo: we don't even know
> what his
> name was. See Rob Helmerichs, 'Rollo as Historical
> Figure',
> which is online at
>
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>
> Brian
>
>
>