Re: Japanese learning, is anybody as frustrated as me?

From: Travers Naran (tnaran_at_no-more-virii-please.direct.ca)
Date: 12/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:33:26 GMT

jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> The French spoken by the Normans never really took hold in England.
> After all, they made up an aristocratic elite while the the townspeople
> and farmers went on speaking their northern/southern English. The
> northen English of the Danelaw was pretty much Danish anyway. Eventually
> the French usage just faded away. I am not aware of any "Viking" words
> that came to English via the Normans.

http://www.krysstal.com/borrow_normanfrench.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/conquestlj/legacy_04.shtml
http://odin.bio.miami.edu/norse/words.html

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