As such it is an ingenious telling of just how German emerged from the primordial Germanic soup, and how many other ways it could have been if, say, Luther had been born 100 miles farther north.
这种处理令本书巧妙地阐明了，德语究竟史如何从最初的日耳曼语杂汤中诞生出来的，同时令人看清了，假如路德出生地比当时再偏北100英里的话，德语可能呈现出的各种不同面目。
Icelandic, a North Germanic language, is the main language of Iceland.
冰岛语，北日耳曼语族语言，也是冰岛主要语言。
New words came with the Germanic tribes -- the Angles, the Saxons, etc. -- that slipped across the North Sea to settle in Britain in the 5th century.
新的词汇随日尔曼部落——盎格鲁、萨克逊等部落——而来， 他们在5世纪的时候越过北海定居在不列颠。
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