They were Vikings (or Norsemen, to be precise) who moved to Normandy and started speaking French a generation or so earlier.
The fact that they didn’t speak prestigious Parisian French is sometimes cited as the reason the English language survived rather than having been wholly displaced.
But he’ll answer you in Norman French, which is much different from Parisian French, having been strongly influenced by the Vikings.
They were Vikings (or Norsemen, to be precise) who moved to Normandy and started speaking French a generation or so earlier.
The fact that they didn’t speak prestigious Parisian French is sometimes cited as the reason the English language survived rather than having been wholly displaced.