• wieson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Norse is old Norwegian/Danish kinda.

    Norman is old French.

    The Normans were northmen (aka Scandinavians) that were allowed to settle in the Normandy (north west France). (They were the ruling class, the inhabitants from before continued to live there).They then adopted the French language.