Toledo

[Michael Erwin]

To answer one possible objection, the use of Latin for religious  
purposes may have sped the switch from Norse to French on the  
continent, but it didn't stop the switch from French to English in  
England, so the use of Gothic for some religious purposes, often  
alongside Latin, may not have sopped a switch from Gothic to Latin.

Mike

On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:13 PM, macmaster at riseup.net wrote:
> How long did it take Norse to die out among the Normans?
> Certainly less than a century (from 911 settlement to no later than  
> the
> first quarter of the eleventh). However, the Normans continued to  
> have a
> consciousness as a people of Scandinavian descent for at least two
> centuries after that.
> I'd suspect a similar process amongst the Gothic rulers of Spain &  
> Italy.
>
> TM
>



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