Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025When Danish fishermen (two pictured) stepped ashore in Northumbrian ports in the 19th Century, I'm told, they and the locals could understand each other. Can any local historians confirm? #danelaw #linguistics #protoindoeuropean 130 0
David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I'd hazard the guess that that's an urban (or in this case: rural) legend. Probably there were single similar words that they recognised, as is bound to happen among Germanic languages. 020 0
