#aph normandy

Finally settled on a ship for my Brittany OC, I've only had her for like 8 years before finally figuring out who I wanted to pair her with. With Normandy! They're two characters that I don't do much with, but they're my only two French regions OCs so they're special to me. Brittany is considered to be one of the few surviving Celtic nations so she definitely deserves more characterisation from me and Normandy is a region that had a very strong impact on England and his brothers. I feel that I developed Normandy a lot better in Behind the Mask, she strikes me as a personification who was quite lonely and wanted to be liked, but somehow was able to make enemies faster than she could make friends.

I came up with the ship because around the 800s, Brittany's people would often work together with Vikings to kick Frankish butts, so I imagine that Brittany did have rather positive(??) relations with the Vikings. Then years later some Vikings settled in France which led to the creation of the duchy of Normandy and I think young Normandy may have taken a liking Brittany and Brittany was fairly fond of her. It would take a while before Normandy noticed that her feelings for Brittany were growing stronger and it probably took her much longer to admit them to Brittany. I think the ship has potential, I just feel I need to study their history more to map out how they interacted with each other over time.

Second page of the Norman Invasion comic.

A bit of a closer look at Wales' relationship with Normandy, which surprisingly enough wasn't really bad at first. Wales even benefitted a bit from the Normans invading Britain, his literature flourished and over 200 French words are known to have intergrated into Welsh from this period. It is interesting how much Welsh literature was boosted by the presence of Normans while the English literature fell completely silent during this period. 

The issue though... as a lot of English fled into Wales, the Normans quickly suspected that the English and Welsh would ally against the Normans and drive them off the island. So what did Normandy do?