Re: Dialect Continuums

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Richard Wordingham"

<richard.wordingham@...>

> wrote:
> >--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > > BTW: For several hundred years the now North French coast from
> the
> > > present Belgian border to Boulogne and beyond was Germanic-
> > speaking.
> > > That means from Hengist and Horsa on there was an unbroken
> > > AngloSaxon - North German dialect continuum.

> ... Also I'd imagine
> (but you would know that better) that William and his successor
> discouraged cross-channel trafic for other than his own gang.

Alas, I have little knowledge of this matter. All I can say is that:
(a) William I's father-in-law was Count of Flanders (Baldwin VI?) as
well as, I think, a descendant of Alfred the Great.
(b) The tax on trade with Flanders was, later at least, an important
revenue source.
(c) I don't recall any Flemish threat to Norman rule.

Richard.