Banestorm language question - english?

[acrosome]

Well, canonically there are occasional isolated villages where other languages are spoken. Small isolated populations can be very linguistically conservative- look at Iceland. So land your group in some village where a Germanic language is spoken, and have locals teach them Anglish, perhaps a bit faster than normal since they understand English. Somewhere along the mountains would seem appropriate, complete with gingerbread houses. Heck, name a couple of local kids Hansel and Gretel. Landing them in such a fortuitous location is also canonical, since the Banestorm is known to do that- there is some sort of attractor such that Bavarian villages got transported to mountains, Balinese to jungle islands, etc. So your Danish crew gets "attracted" to appear in such an area as well.

You could have an interlude, maybe a month(?), and tell them, ok, you all now know Anglish at Broken and have X many points to spend on a few skills, like basic familiarity with a bow from spending some time at the butts, etc. The intellectual guy spent time with the local magistrate and learned a bit about local politics (Area Knowledge), whereas the outdoorsy guy spent time with the local forester and learned about local wildlife (Naturalist (Yrth)), etc. And you "paid" for all of this help by entertaining the locals with news from Earth, since knowing of the existence of Earth seems to be reasonably common at least among the educated. (And from various vignettes the Yrth locals generally seem to take pity upon Banestorm victims.)

Then they get off with some clothes, a few days of food, and a couple of coins.