Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries.Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse, spoken in the northern half of France.These dialects came to be collectively known as …

Old Norman, also called Old Northern French or Old Norman French (Old French: Ancien Normant, [dubious – discuss] Norman: Ancien Normaund), was one of many varieties of the langues d'oïl native to northern France. It was spoken [when?] throughout the region of what is now called Normandy and spread into England, Southern Italy, Sicily and the Levant.It is the ancestor of …