What is the influence of the Norman Conquest upon English la

What is the influence of the Norman Conquest upon English language and literature?

After the Norman Conquest,the general relation of Normans and Saxons was that of master and servant.One of the most striking manifestations of the supremacy of the conquerors was to be seen in the language.The Norman lords spoke French,while their English subjects retained their old tongue.For a long time the scholar wrote in Latin and the courtier in French.There was almost no written literature in English for a time.Chronicles and religious poems were in Latin.Romances,the prominent kind of literature in the Anglo-Norman period,were at first all in French.
By the end of the fourteenth century,when Normans and English intermingled,English was once more the dominent speech in the country.But now it became something different from the old Anglo-Saxon.The structure of the language remained English,and the common words were almost all retained,though often somewhat modified in form.But many terms employed by the Normans were adopted into the English language.The situation is typified by the use of the English "calf","swine" and "sheep" for the animals when tended by the Saxon herdsmen,and of the French "veal","pork" and "mutton" for the flesh served at the noble's table.