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Originally Posted by HarryT
Harold (not Alfred) was the Saxon king of England who was defeated by Duke William of Normandy (subsequently to be King William I of England) at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Had the Norman invasion not happened, the modern English language would certainly not exist in its present form.
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Ah, I was looking in the wrong direction then... When I read "Normans", I don't associate it the people from Normandy, but what we call the "Noormannen", which are the vikings (in Dutch: men from Norway). People from Normandy would be "Normandiërs", which were of course also originally vikings, but that's another story...