Concerning the system of grammatical genders, different Germanic languages have taken different courses of evolution.
While modern German has retained the three genders, English has lost all gender endings, so that the personal pronouns are the only relic of the gender difference. Besides, gender is no longer arbitrary as in Common Germanic and modern German.
From Old Norse, continental Scandinavian languages such as Danish and Swedish have taken yet another peculiar course.
The question of Norwegian is particularly complex. The three-gender-system from Old Norse is currently being revived in modern Norwegian, while in the literary language of the nineteenth century, moulded on Danish, it had been simplified in a two-gender system.
The feminine gender is being reintroduced. This development may separate Norwegian from both Danish and Swedish (whose grammatical genders largely coincide) while reconnecting Norwegian to Old Norse, the language of the ancient Scandinavian literary legacy.