Comment by antonvs
1 month ago
I think they're just confusing Old Norse with Proto-Germanic, i.e. the common ancestor of both Old Norse and Old English.
1 month ago
I think they're just confusing Old Norse with Proto-Germanic, i.e. the common ancestor of both Old Norse and Old English.
>> French also began as a Nordic language, but over time only a few hundred or so words remained, with the rest being mostly Latin-based.
Oh haha I missed that, thanks. That's quite the theory!