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Updated: June 21, 2025
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 Langued'oui, a language between German and Latin, which was the beginning of French.
But "Pere" again, and "Bessee, pretty Bessee," was all the answer she obtained, the last in unmistakable English. "I thought," said Eleanor, "that it was only my own children that scarce knew whether they spoke English, Languedoc, or Langued'oui." "It was the same with us, Lady," said Richard. "Father Adam was wont to say we were a little Babel."
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