Educated men
Used Latin when English not
Known. Latin now part.
Latin influenced
But French influence much more
Old English just gone.
Uneducated
Peasants continued that use
So no good grammar.
Isolation of
Linguistic groups. Saxon / Norse
Began to diverge.
Normans did not like
Weather, language, nor fashions
Liked English forests.
Locals could not hunt
Hampshire depopulation
Formed the New Forest.
From this 'Robin Hood'
Hunted in forest and robbed
The rich; gave to poor.
Struggle of English
French was always on the top
English on bottom.
After Saxon tongue
French came into their country
Children must speak French.
English tongue not used
In sermons to the people
In court the same thing.
Then the Anglo - French,
'English' kings married French wives
Even died in France!
King Henry Second
Aquitaine and other lands
He controlled much more.
He controlled more than
French king! Had more French subjects
Than English subjects.
Two hundred years pass
French and English royal names
Fight for Aquitaine.
Lucrative wine trade
Who inherits Aquitaine?
Cause, Hundred Years' War.
Henry Second's son
Good King Richard meets Robin
Hood; falls to his knees.
Richard knew only
French. Spoke to Robin in French?
Could Robin answer?
Anglo - French children
Educated just in France
Kept French lan-gu-age.
Life of Anglo - French
Separate from English life
Lan-guage separates.
Anglo - French had 'une
Maison'. Became English word
For 'a large mansion'.