Прочитайте и переведите текст на язык. задайте по содержанию текста 3 вопроса и дайте на них ответы. england under foreign kings the invaders, known as vikings, or danes returned again and again to attack england. at first they didn't settle, and the english had to pay tribute. in the ninth century they conquered and settled in the extreme north and west of scotland and also some coastal regions of ireland. they held the english crown for twenty-four years. three danish kings, one after the other, ruled over england; one of them, canute, was at the same time king of england, denmark, norway and sweden. the rule of danish kings over england came to an end soon after canute's death in 1035. now the normans began to attack the coasts of england from normandy (france). in 1066 an invading army of the normans won the victory at the battle of hastings; as a result of this single battle william, duke of normandy, was crowned king of england and became known in the popular history as william the conqueror. unlike the germanic invasions, the norman invasion was small-scale. the normans didn't settle in special areas of settlement. they were given ownership of land and of the people living on it. the feudal system was introduced, where the lords and the barons were normans, and the peasants were saxons. the invaders spoke french, and it was the language of the upper classes and the government; english was the language of the lower classes.
