Normandig

Normandiȝ is stede in Franclande, be Franclandes norðan. Hit ƿæs ȝesetlod fram Norþmenn.

Hit ƿæs ēac land hƿanon cōm Ƿillelm se Bastard tō Englalande.

Landƿaru

Normandiȝ hæfþ 3.2 millionena landbūenda, mid landƿare þiccnesse 107/km². Þæt is hƿeȝa under þǣm ȝemǣnan rīme Franclandes, and in uferran Normandiȝe gǣþ þæt rīm tō 145. Þā hēafodbyrȝ sind: Roðem (on Frencisce: Rouen) (385,000 burgƿara, mid underburgum), se hēafod uferran Normandiȝes and ȝēo þæs hālan landdǣles; Le Havre (247,000); Caþum (on Frencisce: Caen (200,000), þæt hēafod niðeran Normandiȝes; and Kiæresburh (on Frencisce: Cherbourg) (89,000).

Cistercisc fyrnabbodrīce þæs Gruchet-le-Valasse

Ōðere tūnas sind:

• Alençon
• Arromanches
• Avranches
• Baius (on Frencisce: Bayeux)
• Coutances
• Dieppe
• Doudeville
• Eureus (on Frencisce: Évreux)
• Falaise
• Honfleur
• Houlgate
• Lisieux
• Moretoin (on Frencisce: Mortain)
• Sant Laudan (on Frencisce: Saint-Lô)
• Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
• Sainte-Mère-Église
• Villers-Bocage

Landāscrīfung

Landcarte Normandiȝes

Se landscipe bebyrdeþ andlang þāra norðernra rimena þā Engliscan Dīċe. Þā sind granitisc cleofu ƿest and cealcstānes cleofu ēast. Þā sind ēac lang sporu riman in þǣm middan þæs landscipes. The bocage, patchwork of small fields with high hedges, typical of the western areas caused problems for the invading forces in the Battle of Normandy. There are meanders of Siȝene as it approaches its estuary which form a notable feature of the landscape.

Landscipas

• Se Suisse normande (Normanisc Swissland), in the south, presents hillier terrain.
• Se Pays d'Auge is considered typical of the rich agricultural landscape of central Normandy.
• Se Roumois
• Se Lieuvin
• Se Cotentin Peninsula
  • La Hague
• Se Pays de Caux
• Se Bessin

Pont de Normandie

• Se Pays d'Ouche
• Se Norman Vexin
• Se Pays de Bray

Ēa

Ēa in Normandiȝ sind:

• sēo Siȝen
• sēo Orne
• sēo Vire
• sēo Eure
• sēo Risle
• sēo Robec
• sēo Touques
• sēo Couesnon, þe traditionally ȝetǣcenþ sēo mearc betƿeonum þæm Ducdōm Lidƿiċ and þæm Ducdom Normandiȝe.

The Pont de Normandie crossing the estuary of the Seine is regarded as a feat of modern engineering.

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