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Old Saxon

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Old Saxon
n.
The Low German language of the continental Saxons until the 12th century.

Old Saxon
n
(Linguistics / Languages) the Saxon dialect of Low German up to about 1200, from which modern Low German is derived Abbreviation OS
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Noun1.Old Saxon - Low German prior to 1200
Low German, Plattdeutsch - a German dialect spoken in northern Germany


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The girl's mind had conceived a picture of the hut, of the two peasants, of the crownless king; she had imagined the wintry forest, she had recalled the old Saxon ghost-legends, she had appreciated Alfred's courage under calamity, she had remembered his Christian education, and had shown him, with the rooted confidence of those primitive days, relying on the scriptural Jehovah for aid against the mythological Destiny.
It stirs one's old Saxon fighting blood like the tales of "knights who fought 'gainst fearful odds" that thrilled us in our school-boy days.
There's nothing like the old country-side for me, and no music like the twang of the real old Saxon tongue, as one gets it fresh from the veritable chaw in the White Horse Vale; and I say with "Gaarge Ridler," the old west-country yeoman, -
 
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