However, they had completely abandoned their Old Norse language and wholeheartedly adopted French (which is a so-called Romance language, derived originally from the Latin, not Germanic, branch of Indo-European), to the extent that not a single Norse word survived in Normandy.
然而,他们已经完全放弃了他们的古诺尔斯语, 一心一意地采用法语(这是一种所谓的罗曼语, 起源于拉丁语, 而不是日耳曼语, 是印欧语系的分支), 以至于一个挪威语单词都没有幸存下来在诺曼底。