Due of boredom I was looking at a France map and my eyes spotted the region, we call today the Normandy. I thought "What if the Normans never got franconised and kept their original language for whatever reason?"
So..how could this change history?
Would the Normannic region be independent from France?
How could change that the English language? Would English be a "middle thing" between Western Germanic and Northern Germanic? Or would a Normannic invasion of England never happen?
And what about the more further future? Colonial age, the fight of Catholicism VS Protestantism, etc.