Could Vikings and Anglo-Saxons talk to each other?

[ecptr]

Could Vikings and Anglo-Saxons communicate in some early form of a Germanic language?

[Mopi Licinius Crassus]

I have read that old Norse and old English were to a degree mutually intelligible. As you go back in time languages from the same family converge of course,as they derive from a common ancestor

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[Beowulf]

maybe the had few words in common but they couldn't understand each other is like comparing old Gothic with Frankish both were germanic but they couldn't understand each other


but if it in a early form of germnic language, mostly yes, but the Old English and Old Norse was different each other

[Roy]

Those two already were hardly intelligible to each other.

[khanx34]

no vikings are light skinned iranians. they are dravidians

[Rædwald]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTqI6P6iwbE

a good video on the subject :coffee:

[Rædwald]

tl;dr yes

[gixajo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTqI6P6iwbE

a good video on the subject :coffee:

Actually they are not sure if the initial guionized dialogue could have been possible between 2 real speakers of those languages, because what they spoke would be a simulation of how those two languages ​​could have sounded.

Possibly the closest thing to reality is that they could make themselves understood, especially by conveying simple ideas or concepts, but they would have great difficulties or could not at all have a fluid dialogue.