English without the Normans

Yeah but any Anglish will still have Latin (and some Greek) loans - Old English had these frex. Especially as Latin is considered a must for learning in Mediaeval Europe.

And as others also pointed there probably will still be some French influence, but more similar (in terms of impact) like how French influenced German and Dutch* (*= dialects near the Germanic-Romance 'language-border' were influenced more than more distant ones).
 
I'd think that Yola in particular could fit the bill; all they'd need to do is keep most of English's front-syllable stress and lose a random Norman word here and there (to be replaced by an Anglo-Saxon or Norse one, of course) without totally pruning the language of that influence, and bam! New Anglic tongue that looks more "evenly" influenced by French to a less-than-god-awful amount, and still looks/maybe sounds sorta English-like.
 
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