There was quite a bit of border warfare between the Danes settled in the Danelaw and the Anglo-Saxons in the rest of the country. They were not necessarily pirates and may have been settled in England for several generations. Much of the simplification in the prograss of Anglo-Saxon to Modern English was caused by the need to harmonize Old Norse with Anglo-Saxon. Norman French only added a bunch of nouns and verbs to the language. The assimilation of Danish caused significant changes to grammar and structure.
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