It may be well to remember that German is the largest single source of
words in our language. Yes, if you combine Latin with French, Italian,
Spanish, etc., they outweigh it by less than half a percentage point,
as always, if memory serves. Sort of a moot point, wouldn't you say?
The Danes moved in with their Angle-ish language, married into their
Saxon cousins and combined their DNA with Gaels and Britons who'd
been raided by Germanic peoples from time out of mind, and their memory
was better trained than ours. Shakespeare's plays, regardless who
wrote them, were written in a time when that was nearer history,
and constantly referenced events of a period when Norse influence was
still very much a reality in Man and the Western Isles, and the Norse
still ruled the Orkneys and parts of mainland Scotland. The practice
of mootings was the root of much common law, language affected
still survives in the Orkneys and the Western Isles. No way to prove
either way .....moot point.