13.1661, Books: Language Description:Old Saxon

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Date:  11 Jun 2002 18:06 GMT
From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
Subject:  Old Saxon by James E. Cathey

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Date:  11 Jun 2002 18:06 GMT
From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
Subject:  Old Saxon by James E. Cathey

Old Saxon
James E. Cathey
University of Massachusetts / Amherst

Old Saxon, spoken between approximately the 6th and 11th centuries by
an unknown number of speakers likely in the tens of thousands using
several dialects, is a member of the Western group of Germanic also
including Old Frisian and Old English that was characterized inter
alia by a unified pres. pl.marker and no High German sound shift.
Saxon territory was bounded roughly by the sea coast in the north,
where not occupied by Frisian speakers, and the rivers Rhein and Ysel
in the west, Elbe and Saale in the east,  and Lippe and Ruhr in the south.

Old Saxon and Old English were close enough that Anglo-Saxon missionaries
seem to have been able communicate easily on Saxon territory.
The language is best attested by documents from the 9th C, most prominently
by the so-called Hêliand, a story of Christ in 5983 alliterating lines,
and the Old Saxon Genesis in 337 lines. The Hêliand, which also shows
influence from East Franconian, is of particular interest as a proselytizing
document which, while being theologically correct, is couched in terms
acceptable to a pre-Christian sensibility of traditional poetics. The
Genesis, of which only a fragment exists, was translated into an Old English
version of some 700 surviving lines. Beyond these there are smaller at
testations, including: the so-called Heberollen, which are lists of tithes
to churches or monasteries; blessings; a confession of faith; a renunciation
of the devil; single words in manuscripts written in Latin; and personal
and place names.

James E. Cathey is Professor of Germanic Languages with publications in
topics ranging from Old Saxon, Old High German and Gothic to Old Icelandic,
modern Faroese and Finnish.

ISBN 3 89586 514 1.
Languages of the World/ Materials 252.
60 pp. USD 34.50 / EUR 31 / £ 21.10. 2nd printing.

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