[Footnote 17: The Danish language was still spoken by the
Normans of Bayeux on the sea-coast, at a time (A.D. 940)
when it was already forgotten at Rouen, in the court and
capital. Quem (Richard I.) confestim pater Baiocas mittens
Botoni militiae suae principi nutriendum tradidit, ut, ibi
lingua eruditus Danica, suis exterisque hominibus sciret
aperte dare responsa, (Wilhelm. Gemeticensis de Ducibus
Normannis, l. iii. c. 8, p. 623, edit. Camden.) Of the
vernacular and favorite idiom of William the Conqueror,
(A.D. 1035,) Selden (Opera, tom. ii. p. 1640 - 1656) has
given a specimen, obsolete and obscure even to antiquarians
and lawyers.]