Anglo-Norman Arising

the wealth of norman England is poised to grow towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture kingdoms extend with numbers reducing old and new empires jostle, reshaping across continents and islands what of England's exploited common people ? thirty odd years, grinding lifespan under yoke of nature and powerful men some twenty-eight thousand slaves, their chains recast submerging in land of toil, one and a half million serfs, feudal tenure serving hierarchical masters and lords means to ends of ambitious persons, kingly and ecclesiastical bodies supplied for food, battle and pleasure social systems of necessity, fear and status, capital and labour promises promises, marriage, ambition martial opportunistic rulers from the Duchy of Normandy Norsemen upon Norsemen, top-down history veneer of eight thousand foreigners over Anglo-Saxon England old nobility orders quelled and subsumed a new imposing Franko-Viking and Gallo-Roman aristocracy military prowess with a pious bent royal administrative structures, replacement earls, abbots and bishops cross-channel semi-absentee supplanted rule building castles, installing garrisons, subduing rebellion, gaining land more danegeld placation, writs, charters, records Latin, elite Gallo-Romance... Anglo-Norman arising divine and earthly rule by monarchs supreme constrained by wily popes playing alternative papal legate games competing families claim crown succession the identity of England deepens, widening, diversifying churches built with magnificent sturdy presence protected forests, monastic revival, canon and common law high birth, elevating spires, merchants and courts spreading French as a second and intermediate, infiltrating language determining social level through schools and trade dynamics blending ancient Germanic tongue and Roman parlance fluidity, precision, layers of meaning short notes in the wind, longer softer melodies, the sounds of England expanding country, alert and on its toes conflict with royal Scotland, pushing into Wales, eventually Ireland acquiring half of France, managing civil war assertive, devious, treacherous, conniving, alliance and attack seeking reward, endeavour beyond the shore positive feedback seeping down, common people absorbing England foundations of a becoming English state will of higher authorities, church encouraging folk to bend the knee earthly wages, compensation in heaven commoner before the throne, the cross and military lordly commanders the trumpet of victory and time passing a mighty other-worldly purpose aligned with king, god and England