ocr: It was about 300 years berore poetry arid stories were: Written down in English again, as they had been in Saxon times. Norman piace. panes mace from Laiin or. French words appeared: Ponterract, meaning: broken bridge' in Latin, or Beauieu, French for: begutiful place'. Many French words have become part of the modera English we: speak, today: goverorcent, parliamient, duke, cagtie, court music, colour, poerc, people, costume, are. only a few. The Christien Church Was aready strong in Anglo-Saxon Limes. The Normans bult churches ail over England. Some. were great cathedrals, as. at Durham, end ...