Reference on Numbers of Saxons

[roslyn frank]

At 04:06 AM 12/1/00 EST, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 11/30/00 7:59:59 PM Mountain Standard Time,
>rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu writes:

>>Are you only including words documented in written sources before the Norman
>>conquest?

>-- more or less.  The written form of Old English was, as far as one can
>tell, quite close to the spoken form, at least in the Wessex area.

>>Scanning Buck and Partridge, I get the impression that there were many more.

>-- more in some dialects at some time.  Eg., shepherd's counting vocabulary
>in many parts of northern and western England is transparently Welsh... but
>the form of the numerals shows that these are loans from medieval Welsh, not
>survivals from Brythonic!

Can anyone provide other bibliographic references concerning this
shepherd's counting vocabulary?

Thanks,
Roz Frank