... spiritual and temporal with their Norman brethren. Norman-French became the language of the Court and the nobility, the language of Parliament and the law courts, of the universities and the schools,of ... of them, and let the inflexions slide, or takecare of themselves. The more the English and Danes mixed with each other, the oftener they met at church, atgames, and in the market-place, the ... +Influence of the Scandinavian Element.+ The introduction of the Danes and the Danish language intoEngland had the result, in the east, of unsettling the inflexions of our language, and thus of...