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Norman Frcnch period of borrowing (11*-12* century):

•    Religious terms: prophet, saint, Bciptist, miracle, paradise, sacroment, etc.

•    Social and political terms: prince, damę, master, court, rent, poor, rich, prison, crown, purple, prove, etc.

•    Terms of architectnre: in particular, the word castle.

•    The Anglo-Saxon did not build in stone (big buildings were madę of timber or of flint cobble).

•    The word castle comes from Latin, meaning an enclosed or fortified encampment. As soon as the Normans arrived, they bnilt castles.

•    In the Peterborough Chronicie, the First linę of the poem on the death of William the Conqueror (died 1086) is “Castelas he let wyrcean”, “He had castles built”.

•    This linę signals lingnistically the imposition of a new structure on the English landscape.