Iceland, colonization of, 16, 32; expedition to England from, 291; literature, 32, 92, 362
Lanfranc, 219, 226; met by pilgrims, 231; brings about William's marriage, 237; William's ally, 279; Bishop of Canterbury, 320
Louis Outremer, 71; in Rouen, 77; loses the battle with Normandy, 82; death of, 86
Matilda of Flanders, 233; marries William of Normandy, 237; builds Church of the Holy Trinity in Caen, 238; influence in Normandy, 245; gives William a ship, 298; rules Normandy in his absence, 325; favors her son Robert, 334; dies, 335
Mauger, 90; Archbishop of Rouen, 112, 124; opposition to William and Matilda's marriage, 236; dismissal of, by William, 251
Monasticism, 215; value of, to Normandy, 230
Neal of St. Saviour, 201; at Val-ès-dunes, 208; goes to Brittany, 202; at Hastings, 306
Normandy, Rolf's voyage to, 29, 34; formerly called Neustria, 35; independence of, 44; division of, 46; improvement of, 47; loyalty to France, 57; relations with France, 60; holds its own against Louis Outremer, 82; first money coined in, 84; the Norman character, 91; manufactures of, 92; chivalry in, 93; attacked by Æthelred, 103; changes in, 115; Christianity in, 118; social progress of, 132; colonies in Southern Italy, 133; feudalism in, 153; knighthood of, 156; churches of, 168; plague in, 169; Æthelred escapes to, 177; state of religion in, 217; architecture, 239, 240; enmity between Flanders and, 245; victory at Mortemer, 248; craftiness of, 250; victory at Varaville, 252; Harold in, 268; governed by William and Lanfranc, 279; preparation for war in, 295; wins the battle of Hastings, 300; influence of Norman character, 356-360
Northmen, voyages of, 4; literature of, 9; arts of the, 11; ship-building of, 12; in Bayeux, 59
Norway, coast of, 1; metals in, 4; home-life in, 6; reputation of, 9; ships of, 12-14; colonies of, 19; women in, 23; pirates, 26; Haarfager's government of, 30
Odo of Bayeux, 282, 304, 323; made Earl of Kent, 324; Italian plot, 336; release from prison, 339; plots of, 347
Ordericus Vitalis, chronicle of, 334, 337
Paris, plundering of, 19, 40; borders of Normandy near, 125
Peasantry, Norman, 93; complaint of, 95; parliament of and commune, 96; in England, 330
Ponthieu, 246; Harold shipwrecked in, 260; William's ships sail for, 297