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The Key to the Family Deed Chest; How to Decipher and Study Old Documents Being a Guide to the Reading of Ancient Manuscripts

The Key to the Family Deed Chest; How to Decipher and Study Old Documents Being a Guide to the Reading of Ancient Manuscripts


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ANGLO-SAXON, NORMAN-FRENCH, LATIN, AND OLD ENGLISH. A LTHOUGH we are always told that our 2. present English language is directly derived from that of our Saxon forefathers, this information gives us very little, if any, help towards deciphering the old Anglo-Saxon documents. The Saxons, we are told, were not one nation, but rather composed of an aggregate of tribes of Germanic and Scandinavian origin, whose piratical instincts led them to seek adventure by sea and land and form new colonies, just as at the present day Englishmen go forth in search of fame and fortune in the uttermost parts of the earth. Thus the Saxon language, although derived from one identical base, was a collection of dialects banded together, which, in its educated and scholastic form, greatly resembled German in its construction. The language of the Anglo-Saxons (so far as Great Britain is concerned) has been classified ct W-Bww. EXTRACT FROM DOMESDAY. under three distinct headings, the first being pure Anglo-Saxon, i.e., the language as spoken by the first settlers, with an admixture of Celtic orBritish; secondly, this same combination with the addition of Danish; and thirdly, the three above - named languages combined, with the further addition of Norman-French, having in all a Saxon dialect for the basis, to which were afterwards added new words brought into it by foreign invaders or emigrants from over the seas. Ever since the invention of printing great changes have taken place in our language, and to go back prior to that epoch reveals greater changes still. The writings of early chroniclers and poets are so full of words and phrases now obsolete that many books and dictionaries have been compiled to explain their meanings. The Lord's Prayer, as given in the D...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217592284
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217592287
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr


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