Anglo-Norman language
| Anglo-Norman | ||
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Spoken in |
England, and to a lesser extent other parts of the British Isles | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
xno |
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The Anglo- Norman language ( franceis , fraunceis or romanz ) is a Romance language that the Norman upper class brought with them from France after the conquest of England in 1066 . It was different from the language of the Île-de-France from the start . After the separation between the British Isles and Normandy in the early 13th century , Anglo-Norman diverged further from mainland French . B. Geoffrey Chaucer's description of the Prioress in the Canterbury Tales Prologue :
And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly
After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe
For Frensh of Paris was to hire unknowe (124-126).
And she spoke French very well and elegantly
In the style of Stratford atte Bowe,
for the French of Paris was unknown to her
Until the end of the 14th century, Anglo- Norman (along with Latin ) remained the language of the English court, administration and justice. In literature it has been replaced by Middle English since the middle of the 13th century . One of the most popular Anglo-Norman writers was Marie de France .
literature
- Hermann Albert: Medieval English-French jargon (Studies in English Philology; Vol. 63). Sendet Reprint, Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-500-28520-1 (reprint of the Halle 1922 edition)
- Ernst Burghardt: About the influence of English on the Anglo-Norman (Studies on English Philology; Vol. 24). Sendet Reprint, Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-500-27750-0 (reprint of the Halle 1906 edition)
- Richard Ingham: The Anglo-Norman language and its contexts . York Medieval Press, Woodbridge 2010, ISBN 978-1-903153-30-7 .
- Serge Lusignan: La langue des rois au moyen age. Le français en France et en Angleterre . PUF, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-13-054392-8 .
