* 10th C Norseman frozen in a glacier, thaws out in present day Iceland *
* 10th C Norseman starts conversations with modern Icelanders without difficulty *
* 10th C Norseman frozen in a glacier, thaws out anywhere in Scandinavia other than Iceland *
* “I can’t understand this guy at all. Must be Danish.”
@frostwolf I'm not entirely making it up either; there was some sort of later medieval language shift which never hit Iceland, because it was so isolated from the rest of the Scandinavian world.