[Sca-cooks] Faroese

[Stefan li Rous]

'Lainie commented:
> You're right about that. I remembered wrong. But with good reason-
> Faroese
> and Frisian are related, being neighboring branches of the same
> linguistic
> tree, Faroese being in the North Germanic branch, Frisian the West
> Germanic. I can't remember if they can be understood by each other.
> Modern
> German and modern Dutch can, but I don't know about the older 
> languages.

Does this Faroese have some relationship to the Faroe Islands? A quick 
web search confirms my thought that the Faroe Islands are north of 
Scotland, but says the language there, Faroese, is descendant from old 
Norse. The Norse having settled the islands in the 9th century. I 
didn't think old Norse was from Germanic roots.

Stefan
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