Mameluke sword

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by fernando

A sort of French ... if may, Jim . As the legend that, (according to the most popular version), originates in an event occurred in 1347 in a court ball in Calais. Supposedly the motto was written in Anglo Norman, a dialect of Old Norman French, spoken in a period by the English ruling class.
But you know all that, of course .

Wow, thank you for correcting that!!! If I had googled this as well, I would have caught this before writing. I knew of the apocryphal event, but as Latin was such a predominant lingua francia of the times (in legal, administrative and religious matters in particular) it was easy to presume this was the case.
It is most interesting to know of the Anglo-Norman dialects,for the record, and as always I appreciate the elucidation, as clearly I did not know this.

As I have always said, here we learn, together.