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The Normans

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  • 22-05-2007 12:56pm
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    guinnessdrinker
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    When the Normans came to Ireland, what language did they speak?
    And how did it integrate with the native Irish language?.
    Do we have any words today in Irish or Engilish that derived from this time?


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    O'Leprosy
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    guinnessdrinker wrote:
    When the Normans came to Ireland, what language did they speak?
    And how did it integrate with the native Irish language?.
    Do we have any words today in Irish or Engilish that derived from this time?

    Good question. According to Wikipedia " Then came the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. For about 300 years after this, the Norman kings and the high nobility spoke only Anglo-Norman, which was close to Old French. ". They landed at Wexford a century later in 1169, so they probably spoke Anglo-Norman.


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    JMSE
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    I have read the upper class early Norman settlers spoke French but English settlers also followed and they spoke English. A poem about New Ross and written in 1265 in Anglo-French survives.


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