IE and Substrates and Time

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>mcv at wxs.nl writes:

>Anything else to support your bizarre assertion that Old English and Old
>Norse were as close as modern Danish and Swedish? >>

-- speakers of those languages tell me that they can, with considerable
difficulty, by concentrating hard and repeating often, understand basic
phrases, but can't really carry on a conversation.  That seems to have been
roughly the situation with OE and ON by the 11th century.