Quote Originally Posted by scotcher
You can find some similarities in low-level vocabulary and grammar between any IndoEuropean languages, even leaving aside all the loanwords which have travelled back and forth over the centuries, that's precisely why the classification exists. So you can say that Gaelic and English are related, but probably no more closely than, for example, Russian and Swedish.
Funny it may be but the first prince (князь) of Novgorod was a Varangian named Rurik
And Russian language has much more in common with Swedish than it may appear at first glance