Traditional Norman Characteristics

The Normans did not invent the technology of castle building, but they were adept at constructing simple but extremely efficient steppe walled castles - wooden palisade towers surrounded by ditches and timber fences on high ground. These small fortresses, which supplied small groups of cavalry to fight in the wilderness, became a symbol of Norman infiltration and conquest. Moreover, although the Normans were at first novices in the field of mounted warfare, they immediately became masters of it and rode into battle across the continent.

Norman cavalrymen, mounted on horses of the same Arabian bloodline as their rivals of the Frankish, Anjou, or Breton dynasties, clad in the standard body armor of the warriors of northwestern Europe, clad in conical-topped helmets and zigzag shields, and armed with broad-bladed swords and spears, proved in countless battles that they could bring down the enemy. Undoubtedly this was, to some extent, an important result of the Norman warrior class joining in the training of young warriors. They aspired to adopt the spirit of chivalry that had developed in the ancient Carolingian Empire in the 10th and 11th centuries, and which is carefully cultivated today. But the Norman warriors were also fierce and cruel sergeants, trained in a kind of grueling training that was almost inhuman, and the humanity and compassion that had been obliterated was later added to the idea of chivalry by Christian teachings. Long ago, some of the Teutons migrated northward across Denmark, crossing the Sea of Skagerrak and the Khardegat to Sweden and Norway, where they became the first settlers. These Teutons were the ancestors of the Normans. The Normans are mainly the inhabitants of Scandinavia in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages. They also had another name: Viking. The word "Viking" means a person who invaded the neighboring countries of the fjord. It originated in Sweden, Denmark and Norway in Scandinavia, beginning in the mid-to-late 8th century and ending in the mid-to-late 11th century. The influence reached, in addition to the familiar British Isles and France, east to Russia and the Caspian Sea, south to the Mediterranean Sea, west as far as Greenland and even North America.

In people's impression, "piracy" is robbery, killing. But in fact, "piracy" is both a force robbery activities, including commercial trade, cultural exchanges, immigration and colonization and other peaceful side. "Pirates" left people not only terror, suffering, it also left people their own unique and valuable cultural heritage. The civilization created by the Nordic peoples in the Viking Age (700-1000) is called "Viking civilization".