Germans admired Brits. They saw the Brits as their distant relatives, as Brits are mutts from the original Saxon peoples that came over after the Romans; and descendants of the Vikings that settled in the Danelaw and intermarried with the Anglo-Saxons. Nordic and Germanic peoples conquered the British Isles.
Unrelated, I guess: Had the Normans not invaded and brought a bunch of French words into the English language, the English we speak today may have been even closer to Dutch/Frisian/Low German.
Example:
English: What is that? Dutch: Wat is dat? German: Was ist das?
Germans admired Brits. They saw the Brits as their distant relatives, as Brits are mutts from the original Saxon peoples that came over after the Romans; and descendants of the Vikings that settled in the Danelaw and intermarried with the Anglo-Saxons. Nordic and Germanic peoples conquered the British Isles.
Unrelated, I guess: Had the Normans not invaded and brought a bunch of French words into the English language, the English we speak today may have been even closer to Dutch/Frisian/Low German.
Example:
English: What is that?
Dutch: Wat is dat?
German: Was ist das?
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