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"ahope@skynet.be,Ny-Internet writes:
>
>You might also consider the ongoing influence of seafaring folk like
>fishermen, who long after the Viking invaders had gone continued, and
>continue still, to meet and converse in what must be a strange amalgam
>of Scots, Geordie, Norwegian and Danish, as well as Galician and
>Breton. Fishermen are reputed to be able to put in to Ostend and go
>for a drink and communicate, despite their various national origins,
>in fisher-talk. Over the centuries, I suppose some of that must have
>made its way home.

the North Sea was the motorway - the Interstate of those days

easiest communication for people goods and ideas

hus mus (hoos moos) Scotland Iceland Norway Sweden and the Swedish colony
in Finland - Denmark

the German haus Maus and southern english house mouse
(Dutch Flemish Frisian ???)
we all basically talk dialects of North Germanic Saxon Norran adulterated
greatly in UK by Norman French which caused the collapse of the grammar
(out with gender and case endings)

The aboriginals of the British Isles talk Brythonic = British = Britonic
= Welsh (saxon for foreign)
and Gaelic
the Pictish language is lost and scottish Gaelic came over with the
invading Irish tribes"

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