Old English to Old Norse

On Old English and it's similarities to Old Norse with gendered nouns.

	In studying Old English to attempt gaining a deeper knowledge on this, I found that Old English was in-fact a creole of Old Norse and Ænglisc. Ænglisc is basically a Germanic purist's version of English, as the English people are merely Germanic peoples who had come over and cleared the celts out of the unwanted territory. That version of German that was brought over mixed vaguely with Celtic and Romance languages, and with that brought out a major feature of German.
	German has gendered nouns. There's no way to distinguish them with the exception of memorization, but with being exposed to languages of which expressed it through words or prefixes/suffixes (la/el en Español, I'm not adequate enough in French but I'm sure that you can think of an example or two) caused it to begin expressing them through prefix words, such as "sēo" to mark feminine, without it the word was masculine.
	Whilst studying, I hit a jackpot. http://ang.wikipedia.org . This is the Old English Wikipædia. Yeah, it exists, I was amazed too. Now, back to writing xD.
	The gendered nouns of Old English don't seem to be very similar to those of Spanish, French, Gælic, Manx or even German, but they do hold a very similar structure to Old Norse. Studying the history of the British Isles will lead you to not a time period, but just multiple massive occurrences, lasting hundreds of years each of Vikings raiding the isles and settling in. This is because of how the Celtic and Nordic cultures were so similar. They allied with each-other (Fact: Ghengis Khan was a Celt. He had red hair, green eyes and was a giant) and spread both of their races all over the world, getting into Slavic and eastern countries via the Volga river, westward to Newfoundland and South to Northern Africa. In doing so, they left their culture, race and language everywhere, resulting in numerous interesting mixes such as Russian + Faroese, Old Norse + Blackfoot Cree and my favorite; Arabic + Old East Norse (Danish/Swedish parent language).
	The Celts and Nords had been the same people for quite a while until the Ænglisc peoples moved in and began taking territory. This led to the Celts fighting back, as well as the Vikings as they were allied with the Celts. After the vikings had control of most of Britain and began slowly giving it back to the Celts as was planned, the villagers had already assimilated into the Norse-English culture. Most people were bi-lingual with Old Norse and Old English, and that is where the gendered nouns were lost. It was merely easier to speak Old English with fewer formalities, less to learn, easier writing and a more extensible syntax than Old Norse.
	The Scots language (Which I've studied extensively) has optional gendered nouns. I know it sounds odd, but the Scots language varies so much that you can go from one fluent county to another and it sounds like an entirely different language, perhaps it will even have an entirely new script. The typical Scots speaker though will know the ones around his area, and Glaswegian. The only significant character that is special and retained from the days of Old English is Ȝ ȝ. This seems identical to the ʒ (Ezh) character from IPA and some African Phonetic languages, but Ezh makes a soft J sound, such as the s in 'pleasure', the yogh makes any sound it's fit to, typically a guttural g or k, but it is sometimes used as a vowel resembling y, or ə. Old English and Scots also occasionally had ð, þ and A double-s ligature similar to the modern German ß (Eszett or Est-zett) that is shaped much different, such as this: ſ. Also, the ð and þ both make the th sound and are now found in modern day Icelandic and I believe Faroese.
	The Scots language is a reminder of what that period of Old (Low-Middle) English was like, and if you have any questions about it, or anything, please ask me C:. I hope you enjoyed this response c;.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English#Norse_influence ; Old English, Norse Influence. Wikipædia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English#Celtic_influence ; Old English Celtic Influence. Wikipædia.
http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93afods%C4%ABde ; Wikipedia in Old English (Ænglisc dialect, historical).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English ; Wikipedia page on Old English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old_Norse_origin ; List of words of Old Norse Origin.

These are not my primary sources, they're all secondary, however they link out to a great amount of primary sources of which are valid.