Why was Old French so widespread?

Why was Old French so widespread?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was because it no longer is.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The frogs were demons who were obsessed with conquering everybody back in the day, but this was before France was united so it was a bunch of nobles on their own independent initiative

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      isn't that still the case THOUGH? frogs still control half of africa through shady dealings

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No the frogs became cucks ever since they unified into a single state

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Dunno man, they were pretty united when they chimped out under their Italian emperor.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    normans

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not just the Normans. Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin of Boulogne, Stephen of Blois, and Hugh of Vermandois participated in the First Crusade and the former two founded crusader states.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin of Boulogne
        they were flemish

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          didn't know flemings spoke french

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            language =/= race

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm from Wallonia, that means I'm flemish I guess

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They pronounced the S back then? Interesting

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They pronounced pretty much every letter, including the ones that are now represented with the accent circonflexe. French underwent an absolutely insane number of sound changes over the years with initial pronunciation still largely reflected in modern spelling. Not universally mind you, there have been a lot of spelling and grammatical changes over the years, but it's not too far off either.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    french knights were warhammer orcs

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I tried looking into Old French before and I couldn't find much about it
    Is there anything interesting written in it? Do you think if I knew classical Latin and modern French that Old French would be somewhat readable?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It is definitely closer to modern french than Latin
      > would be somewhat readable?
      Readable yes if you have a good grasp of french litterature (aka if you are a native of did studies in it) and general french etymology

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If you know Latin and French, then you can learn to read Old French in a few weeks because it only has two cases, nominative and oblique, and modern French will provide you with most of the vocabulary.
      >Is there something interesting written in it?
      Depends what you mean by interesting. It's pretty much all poetry.
      The Song of Roland is considered the most famous work in Old French. It is grouped together with a lot of other chansons de geste (read: songs about high deeds) pertaining to the exploits of Charlemagne and his Paladins, of William of Orange and Renaud de Montauban (The Four Sons of Aymon). Typically these songs use a very limited vocabulary and use Old French's flexible syntax to make verses rhyme. Indeed they were intended to be sung to an illiterate audience.
      The matters of Britain and Rome are also covered in OF literature. Chrétien de Troyes is considered one of the most important writers of the Arthurian romance (he created Lancelot among other things), and his technical skill is universally recognised. The Alexander Romance about Alexander the Great is also notable.
      Some works in Old French are also historical. The Roman de Brut and the Roman de Rou by Wace are histories of Britain and the Norman dynasty written in verse. There is a Chanson d'Antioche about the Siege of Antioch in the First Crusade, an Estoire de la Guerre sainte about Richard the Lionheart's deeds during the Third Crusade, and two of my personal favourites, the History of William Marshal, commissioned by his son and his squire Jean d'Erlée, and the Life of Saint Louis by Joinville, all written in verse of course.
      The original Travels of Marco Polo is also written in a form of Old French, though with heavy Italian influence on the vocabulary.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because of the Normans

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >French language not spoken in southern France

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's because Southern France spoke Old Occitan, a language with as much prestige as Old French thanks to the troubadours. It wasn't until the Albigensian Crusade that the Occitan language began to decline, because they fell under Northern French control and many troubadours were exiled to Italy.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    that region list looks a bit generous, it was probably only spoken by a handful of aristocrats in most of those places and not for very long

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why was Old French so widespread?

    Hallo, where are le femmes and le golds :DD

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    France was the hegemon of the time due to it's massive birthrate
    Ironically it lost that advantage due to women's rights and became Germany's inferior as a result
    Kek

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Chad Normans

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why was Old French so widespread?
    because it was the language of Tartaria, a lost civilization of the euro-asiatic continent (even the Tsar spoke french) that was destroyed by the ango-israeli empire these past 2 centuries
    the ambient anti-french racism of today is a vestige of that conflict.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    “The external phase of this expansion took the usual form of foreign conquest. French knights went on crusades to Spain and the Holy Land and invaded Sicily, southern Italy, and England. By the end of the century the passes over both the Tweed and the Jordan were watched by French warriors. [...] The younger and bastard sons of the ducal house of Brittany carved out for themselves the great barony of Richmond in England. The Haute ville brothers left Normandy to found the Norman kingdom of Sicily. In the twelfth century the Poitevin house of Lusignan first stole everything available in Poitou and then turned their attention to the East where Cyprus became their permanent domain and the King dom of Jerusalem long acknowledged their rule.”
    - Sydney Painter, French Chivalry, pp. 8-9

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