[Harmless Teddy Bear]

But William the Bastard was descended from Rollo the Walker who was a Viking and who was either Dane or Norse.

So not french, Scandinavian.

[Cronos]

William’s maternal lineage likely included local Frankish or French blood, as Herleva was a Norman woman of non-noble origin, possibly from a family of tanners or minor landowners in Falaise.

They had been French for 100 years or more.

I was intrigued when I understood that not only is English a bastardised mix of Gallo-French with Angko Saxon and a bitter Norse tossed into the mix but Gallo-French is a bastardised mix of latin with Frankish and Norse.

French is unlike the other Romance languages

[ponygirl]

I always thought the word “Norman” meant “Northmen/Norsemen,” aka, Vikings. My dad’s YDNA traces to both Normandy and Northeastern Scotland, and the oldest lineage extends to the high northwestern coast of Norway. I always assumed that meant my ancestor traveled with Rollo to Northern Europe and then Scotland.