Why did the normans invade Britain? Why were the Britain’s so helpless to resist?

Is there any movie or show about William the bast- conqueror or Harold? I mean, it could make for a cool action flick in which you root for the guy that eventually gets an arrow in the eye.

>They were Vikings.
They were French.

>rooting for a usurper, oath breaker and the son of a man that that killed Edwards brother and forced Edward in to a loveless marriage designed to end his dynasty

The Godwins are fucking pure evil Danish wannabe scum lad.

french speaking vikings

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French speaking Frenchmen fighting French style (cavalry) and worshipping the French God, but with a far off Danish ancestry that at that point amounted for about 20% of their admixture

Gotta agree. I'm not sure if the "Normans were vikings" shit is Bongs trying to avoid losing to the French or just pop history Americans getting confused again.

>Why were the Britain’s so helpless to resist?
Because the Anglo-Saxon system of mobilization and motivation to fight was very backwards by mid 11th century standards. Harold Godwinson was planning most of his campaign around his ability to keep and mobilize men, and his enemies both knew about it and planned around it. You have things like Harold having to disband his fleet, because their term of service was up, and neither love nor money could get them to stay longer and defend the channel. And the fyrds; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E mentions how a bunch of the fyrdmen just decided to up and leave because there were too many troops for the terrain to effectively field, and all of them agree that the fyrd that fought at Hastings was a completely different one that fought at Stamford Bridge. Harold didn't really have the ability to mobilize troops from one part of the country and use it to defend another part, he was essentially (with the exception of his own personal housecarls) reliant on a bunch of militias defending their immediate locales, and hoping to use whatever was at hand to fend off the Normans and anyone else.

In contrast, William's mercenary army, in addition to having more of a combined arms, was able to fight and keep together and go anywhere, as long as Willy had money to pay them, and he would, as long as he kept plundering as he went.
There's no contemporary mention that the Huscarls were fatigued from their long march; they manage to fight for about half a day before breaking, which does not indicate they were starting off in worse shape than the other troops.

That almost fictional TV Show called "Vikings" that show Rollo doing stuff he never did, Alfred the Great being a cuck son and vikings converting to islam might have something to do with it

Lot of people don't understand 50% of this show is pure fiction

True, but remember that William is embarking on a frontal charge up a hill against an emplacement that largely neutralizes his advantages in missile troops and cavalry after Godwinson comes to him, not the other way around. The war was more than just hastings, and both Godwinson and William act as if the Normans, not the Anglo-Saxons, had the stronger position.

Furthermore, William had pursuit capability in the form of cavalry; Harold's all infantry army really doesn't. It is from clear that the Saxons compelled to just camp on the hill and take whatever the Normans would throw at them could have won decsiviely if they did win, more likely the attacks would just peter out, and William would pull back and continue to harass and raid, or even leave the country to raise another force.

Nobody except the English hates the French, but oh my how they hate the French. It's pathological.

If the English won it wound be over for William. The English had reinforcements and supplies days away while it could take weeks for more men to arrive to assist William so he would have to retreat across the channel if he wanted to avoid another battle which just puts more pressure on him and makes things easier for Harold.

>The English had reinforcements and supplies days away
The English had no coherent system for keeping men together. It's long been thought that the reason Harold rushed to battle at Hastings was because he couldn't keep his fyrd together as it was.

>while it could take weeks for more men to arrive to assist William so he would have to retreat across the channel
Even if the above is true, and this is the case, William had fortified Pevensey heavily, and English siegecraft was of dubious quality. If he needs to hole up to await reinforcement, he has the perfect position to do so. And that of course is assuming that English reinforcement was on the way, it was greater than the possibility of his fyrd dispersing, and that with all of that, Harold is in a position to fight in the open where William can use his cavalry advantage to full extent. I doubt all three.

You know nobody actually hates the French right? It's pretty much just a meme.
Other people like the Germans have had a historic hatred of the French too

>Germans
Yet no Germans on Veeky Forums shit on French, while Anglos are obsessed with French

Normans equal Frenchfieid Vikings. They were like you guys said, culturally and nationally French.

And pretty much genetically French too, after seven generations of interbreeding with locals

You know how many anti-Britain threads get made on Veeky Forums every day? There's usually a couple up at any given time. I don't think France comes close in that respect.

The Vikings got btfo it was the french who won