Then William the Bastard rose up in Normandy and claimed the throne, and changed the language of the court to French, the native language gained new registers of speech, French being the high register (legal and diplomatic) and the previous English being the low register (common speech and merchants). Then in the time of the game, the Norse returned to the west controlling bits of the Isles and creating Normandy before finally becoming fatigued by war and converting to Catholicism and embracing the local cultures in various places. ![]() Old English was a fusing of an old Scandinavian language (Angles) and the formerly Roman-controlled Gaelic settlers (Saxons) forced into England by the Romans after they forced back the Brythonic/Celtic people from the southern parts of the land and built Hadrian's Wall. The creation of English culture in the game actually mirrors how "English" was born as a language. Linguistic Anthropologist here, a language is a dialect with an army.
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