Semi-Saxon

But sometimes the Semi-Saxon words and the English words are very like each other, and the alliteration can be kept.

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French, in the stories of Wace and Map; Semi-Saxon, in the stories of Layamon; Middle English, in the stories of Malory; and at last English as we now speak it, in the stories of Tennyson.

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[351] "Layamon's Brut or Chronicle of Britain, a poetical Semi-Saxon paraphrase of the Brut of Wace," ed. by Sir Fred.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

But, notwithstanding the resemblance, according to Mr. Ellis, to the "simple and unmixed, though very barbarous Saxon," the character of the alphabet and the nature of the rhythm place it at the close of the twelfth century, and present it as perhaps the best type of the Semi-Saxon.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

English, or Semi-Saxon literature, during the latter part of the twelfth and the whole of the thirteenth century.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

The indisputable literary facts are that the canon of pure Anglo-Saxon or Old-English literature closes with the end of the Saxon Chronicle in 1154, and that the "Semi-Saxon," the "First Middle English," which then makes its appearance, approximates, almost decade by decade, almost year by year, nearer and nearer to the modern type.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

First came the Semi-Saxon, or transition period, throughout which the old language was suffering disorganization and decay, a period of confusion, perplexing alike to those who then used the tongue, and to those who now endeavor to trace its vicissitudes.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

Semi-Saxon and the old English, in point of language, retaining the alliterative feature of the former; and, as a teacher of history, it displays very clearly the newly awakened spirit of religious inquiry, and the desire for religious reform among the English people: it certainly was among the means which aided in establishing a freedom of religious thought in England, while as yet the continent was bound in the fetters of a rigorous and oppressive authority.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee