[Ono-Sendai]

Also the Normans were vikings!

[clarionbell]

French speaking descendants of vikings yes. But they didn't have that much in common with Norwegians at the time.

[kergonath]

They had been vikings. They integrated very quickly on the continent, inter-married with locals and absorbed the culture within a couple of generations. It was nothing like the power structure that was put in place in England.