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Valentine
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Valentine

When did young lads and lasses begin to give each other presents on February 14?  All the way back in the French courts in the high Middle Ages, it seems – and those French courts included the ones in England!  For you must remember that the descendants of the Vikings who came to England in 1066 to claim the royal throne spoke French – the French of Nor…

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