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From: Allison Turner-Hansen <hallison at gte.net>
Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2004.02.09 (07) [E]

Dear Sara,

    You might also look at Hans F. Nielsen's "Old English and the
Continental Germanic Languages", as well as Thomas L. Markey's "A North Sea
Germanic Reader" and "Germanic Dialect Grouping and the Position of
Ingvaeonic".  You will find enough bibliography there to last you a
lifetime.
    I've looked at a good many of the books, so feel free if you want to ask
about any of them.
    Oh, yeah, also look at Doane, A.N.: The Saxon Genesis: an Edition of the
West Saxon Genesis B and the Old Saxon Vatican Genesis.  This is from 1991
and thus has a slightly more recent bibliography (and is a very good book,
with a comparison of the overlapping parts, including syntactic analysis.)
Cheers!
Allison Turner-Hansen

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> From: "schwambs" <schwambs at slu.edu>
> Subject: Questions from a graduate student
>
> Hello,
>   My name is Sara Schwamb and I recently subscribed to the
> Lowlands-L listserve.  I am currently a PhD student in
> medieval English literature and one of my areas of interest
> is the history of the English language. I would like to
> start learning (or learning about) Old Saxon and Old Frisian
> and am not sure where to start.  The Lowlands homepage
> provides an extensive list of resources, but I was hoping
> you might have a suggestion for where to start.  I also
> wonder if you know how to find out which
> universities/scholars in the lowland regions (or beyond)
> offer research opportunities for graduate or postdoctoral
> work in this field. I have tried looking for this
> information in a variety of ways and have found some
> information, but researching on the internet has proven very
> time consuming. I am hoping that by asking a real live
> person, I might be able to learn more or at least be pointed
> in the right direction. Thank you for your time.
> Sincerely,
> Sara Schwamb
> St. Louis, MO
>
> Hello Sara,
>
> You might find Orrin W. Robinson's Old English and Its Closest Relatives
an
> interesting read.  It surveys not only Old English, but also Old Saxon,
Old
> Frisian, Old Low Franconian, Old High German, Old Norse, and Gothic.
>Steven Hanson

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