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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.