It was written in the language of the people. The rulers of Britain at that time still spoke the Norman French they brought with them in ten sixty-six.
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Slowly,Norman French was used less and less until it disappeared.
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But new ones were constantly being added, at that time mostly from NormanFrench.
The thieves are a band of Norman mercenaries, including a mysterious warrior who calls himself Harlequin, from the old French word hellequin, meaning a troop of the devil's horsemen.