Auld Saxon leid

Old Saxon
	Old Low German
	Sahsisk
Region	Northwast Germany, Northeast Netherlands, Soothren Denmark (North Schleswig)
Ethnicity	Saxons
Era	8th–12th yeirhunners; maistly developit intae Middle Low German at the end o the 12th yeirhunner
Leid faimily	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Old Saxon; ; ; ;
Writin seestem	Latin
Leid codes
ISO 639-3	osx
Linguist List	osx
Glottolog	olds1250
	Area in whit Old Saxon wis spoak in yellow
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Auld Saxon, alsae kent as Auld Law German or Auld Nether-Saxon, is the from o Nether-Saxon that wis spoak fae the 8t til 12t yeirhunners. It is first an earliest recordit from o Nether-Saxon an eventually evolvit tae Middle Law German. It is closely relatit tae the Anglo-Frisie leids as it is fae the North Sea Germanic family.^[2]

Literature

Heliand excerpt from the German Historical Museum

Ainly a wee tex survive, maistly vows the Saxons wur requirit tae perform at the behest o Charlemagne. The ainly literary tex preserved is Heliand an wee pairts o the Auld Saxon Genesis forby. Ithers are:

Beda homily (Homilie Bedas)
Credo (Abrenunciatio diaboli et credo) → Old Saxon baptismal vow.
Essener Heberegister
auld Saxon Baptismal Vow (German: Sächsisches Taufgelöbnis)
Penitentiary (altsächsische Beichte, altwestfälische Beichte)
Trierer Blutsegen ( de.)
Spurihalz (Wiener Pferdsegen) ( de.)
Wurmsegen (Wiener Wurmsegen) ( de).
Psalms commentary (Gernroder Psalmenkommentar)

See forbye

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Old Saxon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ "Old Saxon language | Britannica". Britannica (in Inglis). Retrieved 3 Julie 2023.

Fremmit airtins

Einführung in das Altsächsische (An Introduction to Old Saxon) by Roland Schuhmann (in German); copy at the Internet Archive
Galleé, Johan Hendrik (1910). Altsächsische Grammatik. Halle: Max Niemeyer. (at the Internet Archive)

[Glottolog-1] Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Old Saxon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

[2] "Old Saxon language | Britannica". Britannica (in Inglis). Retrieved 3 Julie 2023.

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Old Saxon
Old Low German
Sahsisk
Region	Northwast Germany, Northeast Netherlands, Soothren Denmark (North Schleswig)
Ethnicity	Saxons
Era	8th–12th yeirhunners; maistly developit intae Middle Low German at the end o the 12th yeirhunner
Leid faimily	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Old Saxon
Writin seestem	Latin
Leid codes
ISO 639-3	`osx`
Linguist List	`osx`
Glottolog	`olds1250`^[1]
Area in whit Old Saxon wis spoak in yellow
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