Like the British, French colonizers had sacked and looted their way through sub-saharan Africa, and sent home thousands of treasures that are still on display in French museums.
At the end of the third year, Ragnar found himself becoming restless. He longed for voyages across the sea and adventures that led to battle and plunder in faraway places.
Having the unnecessary carnage in war, the actual killing of people or in business, the unnecessary destruction of kind of monetary assets in people's lives and careers. That's not the object of war.
Relations between Normandy and England at this time were growing increasingly strained by the fact that Normandy was becoming a renowned safe haven from which Viking pillagers were allowed to conduct their operations against Britain.
Bands of young men, like the marauders in the great strike of whom I told you just now, armed themselves and drilled, and began on any opportunity or pretence to skirmish with the people in the streets.