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Nope, not much
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Jah is a gothic conjunction, like "auch" in German (tambem) and doesn't mean much.Originally Posted by Parça do Neymar
Overall its hard to understand, much harder than old standard german -which isn't easy by any means.
Some parts I could understand
in skip gasitan in marein - im Schiff gesessen im Meer
jah quemun fuglos jah fretun thata - auch kamen Vögel die auch fraßen
quad saei - was gesagt
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Not much/ only with difficulties. I wonder if Swedes can understand more- hochdeutsch is more removed from proto Germanic than Scandinavian languages
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Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are highly innovative. Standard German is only less archaic than Icelandic - at least in terms of morphological conservation -, and High German shares some weird innovations with East Germanic that might suggests some degree of contact (it is known that Gothic missionaries played a important role in the christianization of Bavaria). I believe Icelanders would have an easier time than any other Germanic speakers.
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As someone who knows Swedish and English and did not use the cognates, I could understand the first three words basically.
As a side note, I do with some training and if I listen really concentrated comprehend a bit of "Elfdalian", which is an archaic dialect derived from Old Norse. The dialect I speak is derived from around that region of Dalarna. It is basically Swedish counterpart of "Old English", I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfdalian
The New Testament read in Elfdalian:
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