... against them in a Litany of the time "From the incursions of the Northmen, good Lord, deliverus!" In spite of the resistance of the English, the Danes had, before the end of the ninth ... as+Apennine+.8. +The Second Keltic Element.+ The Normans came from Scandinavia early in the tenth century, andwrested the valley of the Seine out of the hands of Charles the Simple, the then king of the ... kinds of offices both spiritual and temporal with their Norman brethren. Norman-French became the language of the Court and the nobility, the language of Parliament and the law courts, of the universities...