In old Lancashire and North Yorkshire dialect there are a lot of Norse loan-words (like "fell" for fjell / fjall ) and in the Orkney Islands if the Norwegians speak slowly the Orcadians can understand and even answer them. When I first came to live in rural Lancashire I could not understand the locals at all, -- though they could understand my "BBC" standard English fine. Now I understand them and even use a few of the local constructions (such as dropping "the" before concrete nouns; saying "tha' [thee] instead of "you" when yelling at people who forget to close the gates).
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In old Lancashire and North Yorkshire dialect there are a lot of Norse loan-words (like "fell" for fjell / fjall ) and in the Orkney Islands if the Norwegians speak slowly the Orcadians can understand and even answer them. When I first came to live in rural Lancashire I could not understand the locals at all, -- though they could understand my "BBC" standard English fine. Now I understand them and even use a few of the local constructions (such as dropping "the" before concrete nouns; saying "tha' [thee] instead of "you" when yelling at people who forget to close the gates).