LINGUIST List 17.1910

Thu Jun 29 2006

Books: Language Description/Ling & Literature: Cathey

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Message 1: Old Saxon: Cathey
Date: 28-Jun-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Old Saxon: Cathey


Title: Old Saxon Series Title: Languages of the World/ Materials 252 Published: 2006 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Author: James E Cathey, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Paperback: ISBN: 3895865141 Pages: 60 Price: Europe EURO 36.00
Abstract:

Old Saxon, spoken between approximately the 6th and 11th centuries by anunknown number of speakers likely in the tens of thousands using severaldialects, is a member of the Western group of Germanic also including OldFrisian and Old English that was characterized inter alia by a unifiedpres. pl. marker and no High German sound shift. Saxon territory wasbounded roughly by the sea coast in the north, where not occupied byFrisian speakers, and the rivers Rhein and Ysel in the west, Elbe and Saalein the east, and Lippe and Ruhr in the south.

Old Saxon and Old English were close enough that Anglo-Saxon missionariesseem to have been able to communicate easily on Saxon territory. Thelanguage is best attested by documents from the 9th C, most prominently bythe so-called Hêliand, a story of Christ in 5983 alliterating lines, andthe Old Saxon Genesis in 337 lines. The Hêliand, which also shows influencefrom East Franconian, is of particular interest as a proselytizing documentwhich, while being theologically correct, is couched in terms acceptable toa pre-Christian sensibility of traditional poetics. The Genesis, of whichonly a fragment exists, was translated into an Old English version of some700 surviving lines. Beyond these there are smaller attestations,including: the so-called Heberollen, which are lists of tithes to churchesor monasteries; blessings; a confession of faith; a renunciation of thedevil; single words in manuscripts written in Latin; and personal and placenames.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Description                             Ling & Literature
Subject Language(s): Old Saxon (osx)
Written In: English (eng )

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