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And the Norsemen/Normans invaded England and took over. They went native and became English after a while. Then started The British Empire.

• Sharlin 4y ago
  Before that they had mostly gone native and become French first.
  • century19 4y ago
    Very true, effectively French speaking Vikings. Who changed the English language to include lots of French. We can see the fingerprints in the way food is named: pork/pig, beef/cow, etc. The French word was used when serving the Normans at the table, and the English word was used in the field.
  • Tagbert 4y ago
    That was the later “Normans” who were Norse that invaded the area of France and learned French. They invaded England a couple of hundred years after the original Norse invasions.
• Tagbert 4y ago
  Of course the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who invaded Britain in the 5th century were barely distinguishable from the later Norse.