The History o English literature

The Norman Conquest of England made a break in English language and also literature in 11th century. The old English-Anglo Saxon become to Germnic speech with complicated grammar, speech and vocabulary. After during The Battle of Hasting this language was in king's and law's court, schools, universities and others. In this all time were 2 languages in England: the Norman French and English of the lowers. In the 14th century there was a National Speech of England with grammarless, French equivalents and legal terms: ledies, courties, words of dresses. Knights used the vocabulary of war, Builders used vocabulary of techinical expressions. And the art of cooking was French. Also there words from French: ox, swine, sheep, deer, meet, beef, pork, mutton, venison. The translators of French poems transfer words bodily than to seek out a native synonym. Chauser stands in dates between King Alfred and Alfred Tennyson. The Anglo-Saxon had been the Wessex dialect, which spoken and written in Alfred's capital. The modern English found in the East Midland, spoken in, for example, Cambridge. The cosmopolitan people connected England and the continent. In the 14th century the literature of England mostly was in Latin, and polite literature in France. The Anglo-Saxon poetry was rythmical and alliterative. And the old English allitirative verse continued to the 16th century.