Never's Remedy

I'm working on my linguistics homework. I am supposed to write the etymologies of ten different words (list given by instructor) and link likely reasons in history for those words to have become part of the English language when they did. So, part of this is understanding the Norman Invasion of 1066. I'm looking it up on wikipedia and find myself very distracted by the language used to describe what happened:

and the extensive penetration of the aristocracy of Scotland by Norman and other French-speaking families.

Personally, I'd like to see historical reenactment films of all of this ... penetration of Scottish aristocracy by their French conquerors. Surely we could create a reasonable, detailed, eight hour documentary about the subject. After all, there was an extensive amount of it to cover.

It's almost 8pm and I'm still only half way through the list. Gods, I had no idea etymological dictionaries lead to such broad tangents, even as I imagine the orgy, I realize that a lot of that penetration was happening to and by my ancestors.