History of Danish
（重定向自Old Danish）
![The approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century:
Old West Norse dialect
Old East Norse dialect
Old Gutnish
Old English
Crimean Gothic
Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility](/Images/godic/202501/30/Old_norse,_ca_9000313.PNG")
The Danish language developed during the Middle Ages out of the Old East Norse, the common predecessor of Danish and Swedish, itself a late form of common Old Norse. The history of Danish can by convention be divided into: