Old Saxon

Twice a month, former locals or their descendants still gather here for Sunday service, mostly held in Low German, a dialect derived from Old Saxon.

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

Of the dialects enumerated above, Bavarian and Alemannic, High and Rhenish Franconian as well as Old Saxon are more or less represented in the literature of the first period.

The form Seaxneat is identical with Saxnot, one of three gods mentioned in a short continental document probably of Old Saxon origin.

This unfortunate nomenclature is due to the term Angli Saxones, which Latin writers used as a designation for the English Saxons as distinguished from the continental or Old Saxons.