Question

French was merged with Old English by the _____.
Danes
Normans
Saxons

Answer 1

Normans.

Step-by-step explanation:

Old English was a language almost entirely Germanic, including the language spoken by the old Vikings who spoke Old Norse. Moreover, the spelling of old English is almost purely phonetic, consisting of a simple two tense, and a verb system of three singular and one plural form.

But with the Norman conquest, they intermarried with the English, resulting in a mixture of the languages spoken by the Norman Danes and the English. This resulted in the merging of the Old English with the Norman's Old French.

Thus, the correct answer is Normans.