ASPECTS OF BRITISH HISTORY
5 Because he took England and
the English crown by conquest.
b) 6. No, there weren't any Norman settlements. 7. No, they lost everything.
8. The king divided most of it among his nobles. 9. Yes, he was the greatest
landowner in England. 10. Yes, but they got the land from barons. 11. No, they were
kept as serfs to farm the land and produce food for the Normans.
c) 12. Yes, he remained duke of Normandy. 13. They did it by a few marriages to
the rulers of French provinces or their heiresses. 14. Yes, over a half of the French
territory. 15. It began after they had lost some of their lands in France.
8. Give the English equivalents to these phrases.
a) Судя по названию; правнуки скандинавов; поселиться на севере
Франции; получить это название; не оставить наследника; претендовать на