When people of one language conquer another there is always extensive borrowing of vocabulary. There's one major exception to the rule, which is that the old Celtic languages of Britain left almost no traces in modern English (I only use three of these)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Brittonic_origin …
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Vocabulary doesn't equate to pronunciation though. If Shakespeare recreationists are correct than 16th century English had a very noticeable Celtic twinge to it which has since been lost (that's not the only difference though):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiblRSqhL04 …
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The latest estimate from the big Viking paper was that no more than 6% of their ancestry is Danish Viking, but a huge chunk from earlier is Danish-like (A-S). The numbers here vary a lot from paper but about 25-45%. In any case they are more like the Irish than continentals.
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