When most people think of medieval Normans and Normandy, they tend to think of French knights, the conquest of England and Southern Italy in the 11th century, and maybe mercenaries in the Byzantine Empire. But the Normans were a little different from most French knights. They originated as Vikings, raiding and eventually settling in the region, and adopting Frankish culture alongside Christianity. That culture tended to be hostile to Vikings, though, so then what did later Normans think of their own Viking origins?
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