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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

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.