Near the end of the Old English period, English underwent a third foreign influence, the result of contact with another important language, the Scandinavian. 古英語(yǔ)時(shí)期接近尾聲的時(shí)候,英語(yǔ)經(jīng)歷了第三個(gè)外來(lái)影響,這是與另一個(gè)重要語(yǔ)種,斯堪的那維亞語(yǔ)接觸的結果。