Why vikings kept their own language during occupation of iceland ? and why contrawisely they didnot kept their own language in normandy in france where they just gave the name only normandy ? Was this because of the strength of french people ?
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Iceland was not inhabited when the Vikings arrived, so they kept their language.
France was the most populous European country in the middle ages (there were almost 20 million people already in 1345, 6 times more than in England at the same time !). When the Vikings arrived in Normandy, they were absorbed by the larger French population. They adopted more sophisticated French customs as well as their language.
France was the most populous European country in the middle ages (there were almost 20 million people already in 1345, 6 times more than in England at the same time !). When the Vikings arrived in Normandy, they were absorbed by the larger French population. They adopted more sophisticated French customs as well as their language.
Spot on. Being Norman, they had ambitions far outside Normandy, inclduing the French throne. Being part of - and separate from - the French, it was part of their tactics.
My mind didnot understand yet ,Iam really sorry for inconvenience to you Mr just i want to know if the franks during the invasion of gauls were speaking romance language or not?:grin:At the time France was just a big jigsaw puzzle composed of dozens of de facto independent duchies and counties, though officially vassal of the king of France. The King of France only possessed a small territory around Paris, known as l'Ile de France ("the island of France", a good metaphor of how isolated the king was). The Duke of Burgundy, for instance, remained more powerful than the King of France until the end of the Hundred Years' War.
But the Normans, despite being Scandinavians, quickly became more Frenchified than the southern half of France. Norman French language was much closer to Parisian French than it was to Occitan languages like Gascon, Languedoc, Auvergnat or Provencal.
Northern French people also has an admixture of Gallo-Roman and Germanic blood through the Franks (from Paris and Picardy to Champagne and Artois), Burgunds (in Burgundy) or Suebi (in Alsace). So Normandy was not an ethnic exception but rather the rule in northern France. They were just the last Germanic tribe to arrive.
Even after conquering England, the Normans remained thoroughly French for over 300 years. They kept speaking French in England, and at one point half of their possession were in France, once they had acquired Brittany and Aquitaine by marriage.
My mind didnot understand yet ,Iam really sorry for inconvenience to you Mr just i want to know if the franks during the invasion of gauls were speaking romance language or not?:grin:
yea indeed ,iam sorry ,just i forgot that you are answered me a question like this ,................ take careI already explained this to you in another thread. I don't like repeating myself.
Probably the same reason they converted to Christianity and stopped worshiping Thor etc; easier to blend in.
I agree with Chris.
The Scandinavians in Normandy were relatively few in number, mostly male, and they married French-speaking women so they became culturally and linguistically French in a few generations.
between their first "visits" in France and William the bastard passed about 200 years - the viking culture was more or less over, I think they were "fallen" in the feudal system of gaining alliances, lands and power by marriages, politics more based upon individual complicated links than upon ethnic and linguistic basis... today they would have bought capital parts in place of it...
Speaking of William the Conquerer... anyone have any ideas on his mother's nationality/ethnic heritage.
I do.
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