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It was always the custom among the Northmen that young princes should thus be put under the care of some trusty vassal, instead of being brought up at home, and one reason why the Centevilles had been chosen by Duke William was, that both Sir Eric and his mother spoke only the old Norwegian tongue, which he wished young Richard to understand well, whereas in
other parts of the Duchy, the Normans had forgotten their own tongue and had taken up what was then called the Langud'oui, a language between German and Latin, which was the beginning of French.
On this day, Duke William himself was expected at Bayeux, to pay a visit to his son before setting out on a journey to settle the disputes between the Counts of Flanders and Montreuil, and this was the reason of ...
Genre: General Fiction
It was always the custom among the Northmen that young princes should thus be put under the care of some trusty vassal, instead of being brought up at home, and one reason why the Centevilles had been chosen by Duke William was, that both Sir Eric and his mother spoke only the old Norwegian tongue, which he wished young Richard to understand well, whereas in
other parts of the Duchy, the Normans had forgotten their own tongue and had taken up what was then called the Langud'oui, a language between German and Latin, which was the beginning of French.
On this day, Duke William himself was expected at Bayeux, to pay a visit to his son before setting out on a journey to settle the disputes between the Counts of Flanders and Montreuil, and this was the reason of ...
Genre: General Fiction
Used availability for Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Little Duke