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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 3402670, member: 2844&quot;]Agree, when I first read Old English, it was almost like Dutch! And even more so if you don&#039;t pick and choose words or short phrases which could bear some resemblance to German (or Danish, Norwegian, Swedish), but take a piece of text.</p><p><br /></p><p>My father could have a conversation with Danish people by just speaking the dialect of his hometown of Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. If you pronounce Danish placenames in &#039;Gronings&#039;, you get them right too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is, all Germanic languages are related, but Germanic doesn&#039;t mean Germany.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Germany is just a name for a country with a very mixed population, including a lot of Celts, just like France is. The name France is taken from the Franks, even though the homeland of the Franks was in the Low Countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Provençal, of course.</p><p>You wouldn&#039;t believe, with my very scant knowledge of Provençal I could read St Francis&#039; &#039;Canticle of the Sun&#039; in the original Umbrian dialect.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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