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Except that "English" in the Dark Ages is absolutely nothing like the English language used today, and would be perfectly understandable by Germans of the same time period. It was, after all, the combined dialects of three Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons and Jutes) which developed into Old English.
English is my native language, and I can also speak a reasonable amount of High German (and therefore also understand some Low German), but I can barely understand any Old English.
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