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by spokesbeing 1206 days ago
Old Norse accounts for about 5% of English vocabulary, including very common everyday words, not regional. Examples: egg, knife, sky, skill, etc, etc. Tons of core vocab.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old...

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And "they", "them", "their", which is really interesting. I can understand a language borrowing nouns (or verbs, or adjectives) from a neighbour, but pronouns?