The everyday flavour of the Scandinavian loans can be seen in these examples, all of which survived into modern Standard English: anger, awkward, bond, cake, crooked, dirt, dregs, egg, fog, freckle, get, kid, leg, lurk, meek, muggy, neck, seem, sister, skill, skirt, smile, Thursday, window, take, get

Old Norse is credited with the introduction of a new set of third-person plural pronouns, they, them, and their. These replaced the earlier Old English inflected forms: hi or hie (in the nominative and accusative cases, 'they / them'), hira or heora (in the genitive case, 'their, of them'), and him or heom (in the dative case, 'to them, for them')

A mixture of Old Norse and Old English helped accelerate the decline of case endings in Old English