The integral closure of a normal finitely-generated k-algebra A in a finite separable field extension E/K of its fraction field is a finite A-module: the normalization map Y → X is finite (Proposition 28, Lecture 17).
The normalization is itself a finitely-generated k-algebra: composing the finite A-module structure with finite-type A/k gives finite-type Y/k.
The integral closure of A in a finite extension of its fraction field is integrally closed; that is, the normalization variety is itself normal.
The structure map A → (integral closure of A in E) is injective, so the normalization map Y → X is dominant.
Existence of the normalization variety (Proposition 28, Lecture 17): there exists a normal variety Y with a finite dominant map Y → X whose coordinate ring is the integral closure of A in E.
The normalization factorization: any morphism f : X → Y factors as X → Norm(Y) → Y through the normalization.
The structural map Norm(Y) → Y from the normalization is an integral morphism.
The map X → Norm(Y) into the normalization is dominant.
Local description: on an affine open U ⊆ Y, the sections of the normalization over f⁻¹(U) form the integral closure of Γ(Y,U) in Γ(X, f⁻¹(U)).