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Rollo is awarded the very highest military honor for his great victory over his (fictional) brother Ragnar Lodbrok (“Shaggy-breeches“) that saved Paris - by being crowned as a Roman Caesar. Historically, Charles the Simple indeed awarded lands to Rollo that became Normandy, and his great-great-great-grandson was William the Conqueror. The speech that William gave before the Battle of Hastings in 1066 of the Norman conquest of England has him boasting about his ancestor and how “Rollo was permitted to wear a dagger whenever he met the King of France, but the King of France was not allowed to wear one, and then how Rollo even wrestled the Devil and left him trussed up like a chicken as a sad spectacle for Angels...“ It is considered one of the great speeches of history and plainly worked at pepping his men up, because they were victorious.
