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They also have no issue speaking to each other, despite in reality they had very different languages (see History Channels' Vikings for more realism). It's a work of fiction and not meant to be historically accurate. Andyross (talk) 14:06, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
Historical fiction can take liberties with events and people for the sake of storytelling, but bad costumes and lack of attention to detail in the setting serves no useful purpose and therefore can be regarded as shortcomings of the production. It is meant to be a depiction of 9th century England, and in that regard, it has many needless errors. On the other hand, almost every piece of historical fiction on TV has the same problems, and it's not really worth calling them out on it in an encyclopedia. 86.24.152.228 (talk) 01:31, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
"Danish Tongue", the name of the language that the Norsemen spoke at the time is not THAT different from Early Old English. The vikings, or so-called "Danes" spoke what belongs to the North Germanic languages group, and the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes spoke what belongs to the "Anglo-Frisian/North Sea Germanic group". The Jutes are believed to come from the Jutland Peninsula (mainland Denmark). Angles and Saxons came from what today is northern Germany, bordering Denmark. A Viking/Dane in the 9th century, could speak to a Saxon in the same way a modern Swede talks to a modern Dane.— Preceding unsigned comment added by VsanoJ (talk • contribs) 15:52, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
