Many Vikings settled in European countries outside Scandinavia where they soon adopted the local languages, but many words from the Viking language (Old Norse) also became ‘loan words’ in the language of their ‘host’ country.
England:
A Viking Standard English Dictionary
Viking words in the Yorkshire Dialect
France:
| Viking words in the Normandy Dialect | |
| Norman Family names of Scandinavian Origin |
The Yorkshire – Normandy link:
Some of the most important regions for Viking settlement were northern and eastern England and Normandy, in France, explaining surprising similarities between, for example, some Yorkshire and Norman dialect words.
