... palaces, of formal religious ritual, and of the pomp and display of all elaborate pageantry. In the outcome they largelyreshaped the heavy mass of Anglo-Saxon life into forms of grace and beauty ... vassals as masters of the land. England ceased to beAnglo-Saxon and became, altogether politically, and partly in race, Norman -French, a change more radicaland far-reaching than any which it has ... parts of the presentHolland, of Germany about the mouth of the Elbe, and of Denmark. They were barbarians, living partly frompiratical expeditions against the northern and eastern coasts of...