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Dialectal Variation in Old Saxon and the Origins of the Hêliand Manuscripts
Ist Teil von
Journal of English and Germanic philology, 2021-10, Vol.120 (4), p.516-544
Ort / Verlag
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Quelle
Project MUSE
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Norton and Sapp examine the dialectal variation in Old Saxon (OS)the origins of the Heliand manuscripts. There is a long-standing debate about the position of OS with respect to the other West Germanic languages. OS shares features with Old English and Old Frisian on the one hand, and with Old High German (OHG) on the other hand, thus defying classification on a simple family tree model and leading to suggestions that OS was not a language in its own right. In fact, Krogh calls this one "of the most difficult questions of comparative Germanic linguistics." The uncertain status of Old Saxon is especially clear in the only lengthy text in the language, the 9th-century religious epic Heliand. This epic poem is attested in six manuscripts, and the three most important manuscripts differ in the extent to which they agree more with Anglo-Frisian phonology and morphology or more with OHG.