Anglo-Norman is the name usually given to the kind of French brought over to England by the conquerors in 1066, then later exported to Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Initially it shared most of its vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation with the medieval French of the mainland.

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Vulgar descendants: Anglo-Norman in dialect and slang; A Look at Magna Carta; Eating your (Anglo-Norman) Words; Anglo-Norman in Chaucer’s Middle English; A Whiff of Multilingualism in Medieval England . This summary map gives a general overview of where Anglo-Norman words are found in English dialects, with an indication of their relative ...

Anglo-Norman is the term commonly used for the variety of French used in Britain between 1066 and the middle of the fifteenth century. That term harks back to the time when the language was regarded as being the regional dialect of the Norman invaders who came across the Channel with William the Conqueror.

Search the entries by the language labels that are applied to them in the dictionary. This search brings up entries that are considered loanwords, i.e. words that have been borrowed into Anglo-Norman from another language with little or no modification (e.g. English tenysballe or …

A selection of Anglo-Norman source texts is available for public access on this site. Press on a title to open the text at the first available page, or go directly to a specific page using the 'jump to page' feature. For additional Anglo-Norman text material, also visit the Publications section.

This section provides a bibliographical list of all of the texts considered Anglo-Norman and consulted during the creation of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary. Press on a letter to view the sources beginning with the letter.

Bibliography of Anglo-Norman Primary Sources. An annotated bibliography, organized alphabetically per AND siglum/abbreviation, of all known Anglo-Norman primary sources available to the AND. Press on a letter to view the sources beginning with the letter.

The dearth of published Anglo-Norman history writing in the fourteenth century, combined with the almost total editing of all Middle English historical literature, has encouraged people to consider language, national identity, and the medieval understanding of the past in the later Middle Ages in a skewed fashion.

After the Norman Conquest in 1066, the availability of Anglo-Norman as a ‘second’ vernacular language dramatically changed the linguistic situation in the British Isles. The aim here to is look at the state of ‘English’ in the late fourteenth century, more than three hundred years later.