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Anglo-Norman   /ˈæŋgloʊ-nˈɔrmən/   Listen
Anglo-Norman

noun
1.
The French (Norman) language used in medieval England.  Synonym: Anglo-French.






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"Anglo-Norman" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Round Towers. But cities there were none, and it is evident that the native Church with difficulty sustained her higher life amidst the influences and encroachments of surrounding barbarism. The Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland was a supplement to the Norman conquest of England; and, like the Norman conquest of England, it was a religious as well as a political enterprise. As Hildebrand had commissioned William to bring ...
— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

... Sweden, and even Iceland, as early as the beginning of the thirteenth and end of the twelfth century. The Germans, who propagated them through the nations of the North, derived them certainly from France. Robert Wace published his Anglo-Norman Romance of the Brut d'Angleterre about 1155. Sir Tristan was written in French prose in 1170; and The Chevalier au Lion, Chevalier de l'Epee, and Sir Lancelot du Lac, in metrical French, by Chrestien de Troyes, ...
— The Mabinogion • Lady Charlotte Guest

... error. Abundant evidence exists relating to many Saxon and later translations of various parts of the Bible before the time of Wycliffe. Among the most notable of the early translators were the Venerable Bede and Alfred the Great. Some portions of Scripture were likewise translated into Anglo-Norman in the thirteenth century. Some of the early fragments are still ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various



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