They may have been of Norse descent but by the time William was born, their language and customs was very much French as they thoroughly intermarried with local population since Rollo invaded Northern France.
Which is why, Latin is still taught in a lot of British schooles, because if you can speak the "Useless, Pointless, Dead Language for Toffs" as Americans call it, you can pretty much speak almost any European language
Latin is also useful for law, botany, zoology and nutrition as legal terms are in Latin and classification of living creatures is also in Latin. I wish I had learned Latin at school but I learned the nearest modern language to it which is Italian after I had left school.
The idea of being 'German' rather than Germanic comes much later, around the middleages. The Germanic tribes originated in central Europe, in the area the Romans named Germania and spread across most of Europe down the centuries. It could be argued that most of central Europe is decended from them
The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, but had a great deal in common culturally with the Scandinavian peoples. For example, the Saxon word Eorl for a great lord, appears in Nordic as Jarl and in English as Earl and both languages shared the word Huskarl, for a lord's personal guard
i'm starting to wonder how much german saxon language was... see the word "warrior" commes from "war" wich come from the norman "werre" wich comes from the french "guerre" wich comes from the german "krieg". so how is it that it wasn't part of the previous anglo-saxon language. unless saxon is more scandinavian-like?
i'm in no manner a scholar in the subject, but i think being generically blue eyed blonds we can suppose they are originated around the baltic sea...i always figured central europe was celtic.
There's the north Europeans (Scandinavians, Baltic people, Russians...), the south Europeans (Italians, Greeks, Serbo-Croats...)... Central Europeans (English, French, Germans...) are just a mix of north and south really.
middle Ages hmmmm yeah could be very true but we also have to say that Germany was made up by small states and not as a whole as we know it today and when did Germany become one was infact due to preusen and Bayern and the French and that was in 1800 something so we can also argue Germany is not that old.
The Normans were Danish Germanic Vikings from the area of Denmark. The king of France gave Normandy (and his gold/treasures) to the Danish Vikings under command of the Viking warlord Rollo, only some decades before the Norman invasion to England (the last great Viking invasion), after they promised not to try conquer Paris in future. They promised too to protect France against possible attacks of other Viking armies. Norman = a Northern man (Viking), Normandy = The Land of the Vikings in France.
What I'm getting from this is that the best way to fight Normans is to keep offering them food. Preferably fish.
Or bite into a raw onion.
@@lusyhognaston3777 That too. LOL
Or just have an onion and breathe all over them.
They also gave us the word Havok, from the medieval for plunder. In fact most of English is a mixture of Norman French and German
With words from the Indian sub continent added from the 19th century.
Frisian too
I like it when he goes 'joy' and the lady goes 'pleasure'
They may have been of Norse descent but by the time William was born, their language and customs was very much French as they thoroughly intermarried with local population since Rollo invaded Northern France.
I LOVE HH!!! So funny and entertaining! Many, many thanks for uploading this! Greetings from Germany :-)
Which is why, Latin is still taught in a lot of British schooles, because if you can speak the "Useless, Pointless, Dead Language for Toffs" as Americans call it, you can pretty much speak almost any European language
Latin is also useful for law, botany, zoology and nutrition as legal terms are in Latin and classification of living creatures is also in Latin. I wish I had learned Latin at school but I learned the nearest modern language to it which is Italian after I had left school.
Genius ! (Another Norman-imported word.;-) )
The idea of being 'German' rather than Germanic comes much later, around the middleages. The Germanic tribes originated in central Europe, in the area the Romans named Germania and spread across most of Europe down the centuries. It could be argued that most of central Europe is decended from them
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That burger looked like a heart-attack waiting to happen!
Funny
The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, but had a great deal in common culturally with the Scandinavian peoples. For example, the Saxon word Eorl for a great lord, appears in Nordic as Jarl and in English as Earl and both languages shared the word Huskarl, for a lord's personal guard
not to mention they did give away women to the agressors when they couldnt defend to make a peace treaty and then ofc mixed up with each other (alot)
Joy.....
Short for 'Toffee Nose'. To be a snob basically
ikr!!
I luv bacon
I think onions smell nice.
So what did the English/Saxons call onions before the Normans invasion?
I don't think they had them
Don't forget the basis for almost all western languages, Latin.
not to mention their Society resembled the scandinivians alot.
so like the wisigoths they were more scandinavian than german...
we must differentiate "germanic" from "german"
I'm guessing Tobuscus, but I acutally don't know
i'm starting to wonder how much german saxon language was...
see the word "warrior" commes from "war" wich come from the norman "werre" wich comes from the french "guerre" wich comes from the german "krieg".
so how is it that it wasn't part of the previous anglo-saxon language. unless saxon is more scandinavian-like?
Hodor!
Mmm... bacon...
Vrai funny
i'm in no manner a scholar in the subject, but i think being generically blue eyed blonds we can suppose they are originated around the baltic sea...i always figured central europe was celtic.
There's the north Europeans (Scandinavians, Baltic people, Russians...), the south Europeans (Italians, Greeks, Serbo-Croats...)... Central Europeans (English, French, Germans...) are just a mix of north and south really.
No, Haddock is a fish
yeah I'm american and I don't call it that nor have I ever heard anyone call it that.
All french words
middle Ages hmmmm yeah could be very true but we also have to say that Germany was made up by small states and not as a whole as we know it today and when did Germany become one was infact due to preusen and Bayern and the French and that was in 1800 something so we can also argue Germany is not that old.
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I'm American. What does "Toff" mean?
Posh.
The Normans were Danish Germanic Vikings from the area of Denmark. The king of France gave Normandy (and his gold/treasures) to the Danish Vikings under command of the Viking warlord Rollo, only some decades before the Norman invasion to England (the last great Viking invasion), after they promised not to try conquer Paris in future. They promised too to protect France against possible attacks of other Viking armies. Norman = a Northern man (Viking), Normandy = The Land of the Vikings in France.