Blondie too

My father liked to say that he was a ‘vindice’.

The Normans, of course, had been enchanted by the beauty of the women of their land. Numerous splendid specimens, tall, blond, with blue eyes, testified to the non-indifference of the ardent islanders.

He, on another small island, connected to the mainland, thousands of kilometers to the north, had met his ‘Nordica’: tall, blonde, with deep blue eyes.