nordmanni

Updated: May 15, 2025

But, as had been the case centuries before in the earlier experiments of that sort, it was the barbarian chief and his hereditary descendants who took over the local government and "held it," as the phrase went, of the universal government of Gaul. These "North-men," the new and striking addition to the province, the Gallo-Romans called, as we have seen "Nordmanni."

Hilaire Belloc - Europe and the Faith: "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"