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.
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.
But he’ll answer you in Norman French, which is much different from Parisian French, having been strongly influenced by the Vikings.
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.
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.