How similar are the Germanic languages English, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Low Saxon and Swedish to each other?

Germanic languages in Europe.

Luckily there's a site that can answer this that I found a little while ago while searching for something else. It's called Sigurd, and is devoted to increasing the awareness of linguistic similarities throughout Germanic languages in Europe. It has a number of stories that have been translated into each of these language so that you can compare one with the other. For example, here's the first paragraph of a story in Norwegian called De dødes gudstjeneste (the dead people's mass):

De dødes gudstjeneste

Min mor, som var en ærlig kone, fortalte denne historien. Den hendte her i byen, og det attpåtil første juledagsnatt, og den er sann, for det kom aldri et usant ord fra hennes munn.

then Swedish:

De dödas gudstjänst

Min mor som var en hederlig kvinna berättade denna historia. Det hände här i stan och till och med på själva julnatten, och det är sant för hon lät aldrig ett osant ord falla ur sin mun.

now in English:

The dead people’s mass

My mother, who was an honest woman, told this story. It happened here in the city and that even on Christmas night, and it is true, because it never came an untrue word from her mouth.

then German:

Die Totenmesse

Meine Mutter, die eine ehrliche Frau war, erzählte diese Geschichte. Es geschah hier in der Stadt, und das sogar am ersten Weihnachtsabend. Es ist eine wahre Geschichte; denn es kam nie ein unwahres Wort aus ihrem Mund.

then Dutch:

De doden mis

Mijn moeder die een eerlijke vrouw was, vertelde dit verhaal. Het gebeurde hier in de stad en dat zelfs op kerstavond. Het is een waar verhaal; immers, nooit een onwaar woord kwam over haar lippen.

and finally Low Saxon:

De dodenmis

Mi moo, den eyne earlike fraue was, vertellen disse gesjichte. Et passeren hyr in de stad, en dæt sölfs in den eersten karstnacht, en et is wår, wyl der nimmer eyn onwår woord ut hör mond köm.

Anything else particularly interesting on that site? It would be interesting to see a Germanic IAL translation of one of these tales too, or Gothic or another extinct Germanic language. Icelandic too.