Robin wrote (re Piers Plowman):
"Candice, do you have any comment on this?"
"This" being 50 percent fewer French borrowings in the
first lines of Piers than in those of the CT--I think
it's only to be expected the further north you get
from (Frenchified) London. And, of course, there's the
political force of the northern revival, which may
have led Langland to consciously avoid French
borrowings in his (lettered) alliterative verse.
What's interesting, though, as Robin points out, is
that the borrowings in a poem composed to celebrate
"Old" English are likewise "Old" (French) and
Anglo-Norman.
Candice
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