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。