Why did the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain have a much more

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>>2802787
The Anglo-Saxon invasion established new states whereas various Viking invasions did not build lasting states. Without a state, from where do values come?

Because the Anglos were migrating while the Vikings were just fucking around.

>>2802787
I think the vikings had a much bigger effect on the culture than most people realize

There's been some serious academic arguments put forth that Modern English is actually descended from a dialect of Old Norse heavily influenced by Anglo-Saxon, rather than the other way around.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121127094111.htm
http://anglistika.upol.cz/fileadmin/kaa/emonds/vikings2014.pdf

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>>2802855
english is more french than either of those

>>2802874
This pie chart is padded out by millions of words people will never meaningfully use.
If you're speaking English and it isn't in an academic context, it will have very little to no French or Latinate influence.

>>2802816
Vikings settled too my dude

>>2802874
I understand you get a kick by posting this in every thread about English but you're just trolling right? You're not actually stupid enough to believe that English is a French dialect because it has a bunch of (sometimes rarely used) lexical items