Valdemar II
Banned
How do we make Danish into a varians of Plattdeutsch. One way I could see it happen are with a loss of Norway in 16 or 17 century and more focus toward North Germany. So what if Denmark lose Norway around 1610 to Sweden, but this is part of 30 years war just more succesful maybe with a conquest of Bremen and Pomerania, a Austrian attempt to get rid of Denmark end with large part of Jutland depopulated but in the end a Danish victory Jutland when get large amount of German refugees from the Catholic conquered protestant areas Copenhagen get over the next hundred years a large influx of German subjects as the capital over large north German areas. By 1800 standard *Danish and Plattdeutsch is mutually intelligible and lots of Plattdeutsch speaking areas use the *Danish Bible and *Danish literature.