Hwaet!
I've been studying Swedish lately, and it is interesting to see how many words in Modern English are North rather than West Germanic in origin (i.e., not akin to German). There's an old story that English is a West Germanic language with a North Germanic superstrate, but I think that doesn't entirely do justice to the intermediary position from which the speakers of Old English came. They weren't from Holland, they were from Jutland, in essence.
Cheers,
John
Oh, thus, boy is pojke, but Junge in German.
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