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The Medieval Period
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By Elaine Rodrigues Paixão and Wesley Oliveira Lima. The same stream that settled in Britain during the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon Period had gone to the northern of France in the fifth century. Here, the result of intermarriage between Norse people and the inhabitants of France created the Norman civilization. Old English lost most of its inflections and its pronunciation acquired a French manner. Plenty of French words displaced Anglo-Saxon terms such as ‘Haelend’ (the Healer), which ...On the very b...