Old Saxon Definition

Old Saxon Sentence Examples

• Of this the part corresponding to lines 790820 exists also in the original Old Saxon.

• The suspicion of some earlier scholars that the Praefatio and the Versus might be a modern forgery is refuted by the occurrence of the word vitteas, which is the Old Saxon fittea, corresponding to the Old English fitt, which means a "canto" of a poem.

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

• Sievers's conclusions were brilliantly confirmed in 1894 by the discovery in the Vatican library of a MS. containing 62 lines of the Heliand and three fragments of an old Saxon poem on the story of Genesis.