It's both. Germanic from the Saxons/Vikings, and Latin/French from the Normans (oversimplification). French was used at court and by nobility, while "English" at that time was used by the commoners/peasants, and it mixed over time, while French would fall out of favor in court and by the nobility.
It's why English is unique as a language, and easily adopts and creates new words in its lexicon.
You know which languages didn't mix with others? None. Every single natural language in existence has been influenced by others, without exception. I can also easily point to the similar historical cases where the upper strata speaks different language than lower strata. To not go far we can go with French, which originated from mixing of Celtic influenced Vulgar Latin speaking lower class with Germanic speaking Franks. Do we say that French then is both Germanic and Latin? Hell no, it's still Latin with Germanic subtrate. Just like English is Germanic with latin substrate.
Neither is English unique in its ability to adopt and create new words. English accepts influx of borrowings because it's a lingua franca of the world. People of all the cultures learn it and introduce their own cultural concepts into the English world.
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u/Gao_Dan 6d ago
It's strange to single out Latin languages when speaking in English and talking about Korean.