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Yeah I feel like 80% of Norwegian is just mutated German.
e.g. Tier --> dyr (animal)
Germanic languages do be like that sometimes
There's also quite a bit of English, eg.
Window -> vindu
Leather (animal skin) -> skinn
That's the other way. English got a lot of words from the vikings.