Danes are not dutch :) Jutland is in Denmark!
Wallander is Swedish :)
yeah i know.
I'm not sure i said anything which suggested i didn't know that :?
As a Dane (and historian) I have to point out that the English language is influenced by Danish as it was the Danish vikings who settled in England and there was a difference between the Scandinavic languages (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish), but the differences weren't as big as they are today. The Norwegian vikings settled in Ireland so the may have had influence on the Irish version on English?
No need to point out that the tables have turned and nowdays English have far suppassed any small imprint Danish left upon the English language during the viking invasions 
I thought it was all norse back then? Maybe it had already split into old west and east norse. But you're right there was a lot less difference then. maybe all were even close enough that you could (near enough) just call them germanic, with the different branches little more than dialects at that point.
Whoa... he's only the "Eddie Van Halen of Adult Cinema" ... :P
haha
The nearest relative to English and Lowland Scots (save the cheese eating surrender monkey part of the language) is Frisian, which also links Dutch and Danish (as it would be being the part in betwen the two countries). Prior to the Norman invasion the languages of the three areas were apparently mutually comprehensible.
Check out Eddie Izzard speaking to a Frisian farmer in Old English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34 - not sure that he stuck to the script, however :D
yeah i'd always read that frisian was the closest. when i say norse had an influence, i mean an influence on old english (which then turned into middle english, then modern english etc.) or anglo saxon.
I was under the impression that frisian was west germanic (as is english), whereas danish is north germanic, though maybe there's a dialect continuum thing going on.
thanks for the video i'll check it out now :) EDIT: ahahaha excellent. :lol:
