Ibelieve it was a condition of the peacentreeaty that they accept French sovereignty and adopted the French language.
No, what happened was that the Norsemen / Normans quickly assimilated and adopted the language and customs of the region of France in which they settled.
We are talking a more organic process than formal peace treaties and so forth.
What we are talking about is a warrior elite of Norse heritage ruling an area of France which would have retained its Gallic/Frankish heritage below the level of the top dogs.
In the Danelaw in Northern England the Norsemen would have ruled the roost but people continued to speak Anglo-Saxon but with stronger Scandinavian influences - detectable in Geordie and Yorkshire dialects to this very day.
We are not talking about nation-states in the modern sense but something far more porous and organic.
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No, what happened was that the Norsemen / Normans quickly assimilated and adopted the language and customs of the region of France in which they settled.
We are talking a more organic process than formal peace treaties and so forth.
What we are talking about is a warrior elite of Norse heritage ruling an area of France which would have retained its Gallic/Frankish heritage below the level of the top dogs.
In the Danelaw in Northern England the Norsemen would have ruled the roost but people continued to speak Anglo-Saxon but with stronger Scandinavian influences - detectable in Geordie and Yorkshire dialects to this very day.
We are not talking about nation-states in the modern sense but something far more porous and organic.