That’s true but they’re not quite the same as a full ass Chateau. Tbh, my pre-norman England knowledge is mostly downstream from my Tolkien nerdery it is something I should look more into. German history as well. I’m eventually gonna know all of history really really well one obsession at a time.
Castles come from the French in general. Stone castles were a post Norman thing. Big wooden halls, Rohan style were the pre-Norman Norm
they’re also prenorman, the roman ones. some of which were still used into the norman era: i.e. the walls of York
That’s true but they’re not quite the same as a full ass Chateau. Tbh, my pre-norman England knowledge is mostly downstream from my Tolkien nerdery it is something I should look more into. German history as well. I’m eventually gonna know all of history really really well one obsession at a time.