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Yeah I would say there's a spectrum of intelligibility of English - Dutch - Swedish - German.
I noticed you excluded Danish.
Before English standardized, you could be in different parts of what is now england and hear 'egges' and 'eier' depending on which languages influenced things.
This is how knowing Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian feels.