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No, the Norse influence is small relative to Norman. Something like 30% of modern English is Norman-French derived, with thousands of direct cognates. History
by ycombinete 3y ago
No, the Norse influence is small relative to Norman. Something like 30% of modern English is Norman-French derived, with thousands of direct cognates.
History is rarely simple though! The Normans themselves were a hybrid of Viking settlers and locals. So it's likely that quite a few of those French words we absorbed into English have Old Norse roots.
- OnlyMortal 3y agoThere’s plenty of old Norse in use for places in Yorkshire. The dialect has words too such as, “ta” (thanks). It’s similar to the Danish word, “tak”.