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Inside South Carolina's Forgotten River Towns | Full Documentary

The Pee Dee region is one of the most overlooked corners of the American South. We travelled more than 100 miles across rural South Carolina, exploring forgotten tobacco country and sprawling river swamps. There, we met the people who define one of America's most forgotten regions.

0:00 Intro
1:23 Pamplico, SC
5:07 Greeleyville, SC
5:32 Sharecropper Memories
10:53 Scott’s BBQ
13:29 St. Stephens, SC
13:38 Cowboy the Can Man
16:23 Effects of Hurricane Hugo
17:11 Into the Backcountry
19:37 McClellanville
20:04 Outro

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Normandy literally means "Land of the Northmen." Today, on the anniversary of D-Day, almost nobody talks about why.

The man who gave this coast its name was called Rolf the Walker. Not because he was a hiker. Because he was so physically enormous that no horse in Scandinavia could carry him. He walked everywhere. In an era of mounted warriors, the most feared Viking in Europe traveled on foot.

He was born somewhere in Scandinavia around 860 AD, son of a Norse earl. He became a raider of extraordinary brutality and range. He hit Scotland. He hit England. He descended on Paris not once but multiple times, dragging the Frankish kingdom to its knees. The Franks paid him off repeatedly, what they called "Danegeld," tribute money to make Vikings leave. He kept coming back for more.

His own king eventually banished him from Norway for the crime of raiding too close to home. Harald Fairhair held a Thing, a formal assembly, and declared Rolf Ganger an outlaw in his own land. So Rolf the Walker, homeless, exiled, and furious, turned his full attention onto France.

By 911, the Frankish king Charles the Simple had had enough. He could not beat Rollo militarily. So he decided to do something audacious: he would give him the land.

The negotiation nearly fell apart immediately. Charles first offered Rollo the territory of Flanders, a rocky, windswept, largely useless stretch of northern coastline. Rollo looked at it and said no. He wanted farmable land. Charles, desperate, surrendered a far more valuable prize: the fertile territory around the Seine river mouth, the land that would become Normandy.

Then came the ceremony.

To seal the deal, Rollo was required to perform an act of feudal submission: kneel and kiss the king's foot. Rollo refused. He would not bow to any man. Ever. His exact words, recorded by the chronicler Dudo of Saint-Quentin: "I will never bow my knees at the knees of any man, and no man's foot will I kiss."

But a deal was a deal. So Rollo ordered one of his warriors to perform the act in his place. The warrior walked up to King Charles the Simple, reached down, grabbed the royal foot, and lifted it directly to his mouth without bending. The king, still standing, went completely off balance.

The King of France toppled backwards in front of his entire court.

The crowd, by multiple accounts, erupted in laughter.

Rollo converted to Christianity as part of the agreement, took the baptismal name Robert, and transformed from the most feared raider in Europe into one of its most effective administrators. He built roads. He reformed law. He established order so complete that chroniclers later wrote that a woman could walk across Normandy alone, draped in gold, and not be touched. After centuries of Viking devastation, that was almost incomprehensible.

He kept every term of his treaty. There are no recorded Viking raids into Francia after 911.

His great-great-great-grandson was William the Conqueror, who in 1066 sailed back across the channel and seized England, changing the English language and every institution of British civilization permanently.

King Charles III, sitting on the British throne today, is a direct descendant of the exiled Viking who was too big for any horse.

And the beaches where Rollo's people settled, farmed, built cathedrals, and raised dynasties for over a thousand years?

On June 6, 1944, more than 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed them in a single morning. American boys from Nebraska and Utah, British and Canadian troops, fought and died on ground that had been Viking territory, Norman duchy, medieval kingdom, and occupied France before the sun came up on that day.

The land beneath Omaha Beach had already survived more history than most nations will ever see.

Today we remember the men who added one final, defining chapter to it.

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Andy Rooney on DDay

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