Quote Originally Posted by snowblizz View Post
An interesting thing I learnt some years ago is that English and Scandinavian languages are much more similar than what has been thought. Unlike other languages English took words from, when it comes to Scandinavian languages (or more properly ancient Norse I guess) English seems to have taken on grammar and other linguistic structure.
Parts of what are now England were actually under Scandinavian rule for well over a century--see the Danelaw, which existed from around 800AD to 954AD. The languages mingled a lot back then.