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... early Saxon writers is tame and incorrect when compared with that of the scholars of Lanfranc and Anselm . It was , however , essentially owing to the importation of learned men ; for , during the first half of the Anglo - Norman period ...
... early Saxon writers is tame and incorrect when compared with that of the scholars of Lanfranc and Anselm . It was , however , essentially owing to the importation of learned men ; for , during the first half of the Anglo - Norman period ...
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... early even as the time of the second of the Norman dukes , William I. , only a few years after the death of Rollo , we are told by Dudo de St. Quentin , that the duke was obliged to send his son to Bayeux to learn the Danish tongue , as ...
... early even as the time of the second of the Norman dukes , William I. , only a few years after the death of Rollo , we are told by Dudo de St. Quentin , that the duke was obliged to send his son to Bayeux to learn the Danish tongue , as ...
Page xiv
... early period , and that they followed their patrons into England . But we only become acquainted with their compositions at a later period . In literature , the Anglo - Norman language first makes its appearance in poems of a religious ...
... early period , and that they followed their patrons into England . But we only become acquainted with their compositions at a later period . In literature , the Anglo - Norman language first makes its appearance in poems of a religious ...
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... early manuscript in the Anglo - Nor- man dialect has been preserved . Most of this religious and serious poetry ... earliest pe- riod of Anglo - Norman literary history . One of the oldest of these is a version of the Psalms , which is ...
... early manuscript in the Anglo - Nor- man dialect has been preserved . Most of this religious and serious poetry ... earliest pe- riod of Anglo - Norman literary history . One of the oldest of these is a version of the Psalms , which is ...
Page xix
... early manuscript , appears to be in the language of the twelfth century , as the following passage will show : - The only known English writers of Anglo - Norman prose. : - De entremeins aveir ; k'il voldrat clamer emblet , e il volge ...
... early manuscript , appears to be in the language of the twelfth century , as the following passage will show : - The only known English writers of Anglo - Norman prose. : - De entremeins aveir ; k'il voldrat clamer emblet , e il volge ...
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