Very much unlike the detailed portrayal of the events, the feelings, and the accompanying evaluative judgements that would constitute e.g., a battle-scene in Old English poetry, very much unlike the verbosity in presenting stirrings of grief, or emotions of joy in Old English poetry, Old North Germanic poetry exerts a considerable amount of restraint as to all features discussed above.
Summing up, as to the features investigated here, Old English shares a basic rhetoric "toolkit" with North Germanic poetry, and, to a somewhat lesser extent, it seems, with Old High German poetry, too.
Summing up, all rhetoric features as to which the Old English texts differed from Old High German and from North Germanic poetry, not only proved to be characteristic for the Celtic texts, too, but even showed themselves in a climactically augmented proportion there.
While it is striking that similar forms can be found in the North Germanic languages, it is important to note that the oblique form, thee, represents the expected West Germanic form, not the North.
The words which have a rounded front vowel in Orkney dialect do not have one in North Germanic. Thus Orcadian mune /myn/ 'moon' is equivalent to Norwegian mane/mo:ne/.
The be-perfective construction can be compared with similar structures in the North Germanic languages (or, for that matter, in several of the West Germanic).