@SimonRoyHughes
May sound weird that Asbjørnsen and Moe wrote down Norwegian tales in "Dan-ish" when both of them were Norwegians. And we can blame Denmark of the time for that...
As revenge, even to this day, Norwegians refuse to understand any Danish word coming from the mouth of a Dane. Despite the fact that our written language is like 90% identical.
But that happened a long time ago! In modern times we've agreed to speak to eachother again.
Only in English though!