Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

They spoke Norman French which is like a predecessor to modern day French, each region spoke a different language, in fact each Channel Island spoke a different language.

The first English speaking Kings didn't happen until about 100 - 200 years later.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.