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DON'T BELIEVE THOSE NORMAN DOGS (lemmy.world)
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[–] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.