Old Saxon

noun

Old Saxon

the Saxon dialect of Low German up to about 1200, from which modern Low German is derived OS

First recorded in 1830–35

Of its origin and early history we have no record except the bare statement of Bede that its settlers were of the Old Saxon race.

The Old-Saxon language, however, is extinct, and the blood considerably mixed.

Of this the part corresponding to lines 790-820 exists also in the original Old Saxon.

The whole poem thrills with the Old Saxon love of the sea and of ships.

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