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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They were Vikings (or Norsemen, to be precise) who moved to Normandy and started speaking French a generation or so earlier.

The fact that they didn’t speak prestigious Parisian French is sometimes cited as the reason the English language survived rather than having been wholly displaced.

[–] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

They were Vikings (or Norsemen, to be precise) who moved to Normandy and started speaking French a generation or so earlier.

Even more so, they moved there on invitation of a French king who gave them the land and their leaders titles in return for them "dissuading" other Vikings from raiding Paris.