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The Angles, Saxons and Jutes were West Germanic in origin. (or if you want to be specific, Invaeonic/North Sea Germanic) and as a result, Old English was/is a West Germanic language like it's two descendants English and Scots.

Then the famous Vikings came into the picture, influencing the British Isles linguistically with words that have persisted to the present. Now I know there are several threads about a Norse England, Viking England or other Norse oriented the British Isles.

But, what if, the British Isles were never settled by West Germanic people, to begin with? What, who and how can we get the first Germanic settlers of the British Isles to be of North Germanic origin? Idk, the Norse didn't expand anywhere until the Viking age, and the Jutes weren't North Germanic IIRC.

How would a North Germanic Britain change the world in general?
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