Old Saxon

Certain similarities between passages in _Paradise Lost_ and parts of the translation from Old Saxon interpolated in the Old English _Genesis_ have given occasion to the suggestion that some scholar may have talked to

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

In 1877 Professor E. Sievers argued, on linguistic grounds, that it was a translation, with some original insertions, from a lost poem in Old Saxon, probably by the author of the _Heliand_.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

In the group of West Germanic dialects, for the study of which Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old Saxon are our oldest and most valuable sources, we still have these four cases, but the phonetic form of the case syllables is already greatly reduced and in certain paradigms particular cases have coalesced.

Chapter 7. Language as a Historical Product: Drift 1921

Thus Kemble brought to the study of the poem not only a knowledge of the Old English poetry and prose, but acquaintance with Old Norse, Gothic, Old High German, and Old Saxon.

The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919

The Sievers theory, whose history is one of the brilliant episodes of modern philology, was established in 1894 by the discovery of fragments of an Old Saxon "Genesis".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Our everyday name of "beads" for it is simply the Old Saxon word bede (a prayer) which has been transferred to the instrument used in reciting the prayer, while the word rosary is an equally modern term.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

This fact favours the view that the author was a priest, while his intimate mastery of the formulæ and metrical shifts of the Old Saxon minstrels suggests that he was a skop and a layman.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

J.G. von Eckhart identified it with the Old Saxon poem mentioned in the "Præfatio" of Flacius.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Sievers has shown that the following 617 lines, called _Genesis B_, were written and interpolated later, by a different hand, and have Old Saxon affiliations.

Genesis A Translated from the Old English Lawrence Mason 1890

There is something about the odd gaze and twist of the neck that irresistibly reminds me of an illustration in an Old Saxon or Early English manuscript.

The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880