26November2026
Lecture: Guillaume’s language
The Thursday 26 November at 20 a.m30
La Baronnie 14440 DOUVRES-LA-DELIVRANDE
By Catherine Bougy, Honorary Senior Lecturer in French Linguistics and Normandy Dialectology. University of Caen Normandy.
In the absence of written records, we can only speculate as to what William the Conqueror spoke. However, literary texts written in the Norman and Anglo–Norman region in the 11th and 12th centuries allow us to put forward hypotheses, which are supported both by modern Norman dialects and by contemporary English, which provides a wealth of evidence regarding the language introduced into England by the Duke-King and his barons.
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