- RegionNorthwest Germany, Northeast Netherlands, Southern Denmark (North Schleswig)EthnicitySaxonsEra8th–12th centuries; mostly developed into Middle Low German at the end of the 12th centuryLanguage familyIndo-European · Germanic · West Germanic · North Sea Germanic · Old Saxon
Bede, a Northumbrian writing around the year 730, remarks that "the old (that is, the continental) Saxons have no king, but they are governed by several ealdormen (or satrapa) who, during war, cast lots for leadership but who, in time of peace, are equal in power." The regnum Saxonum was divided into three provinces – Westphalia, Eastphalia and Angria – which comprised about one hu…
Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA licenseWebOld Saxony is the place from which most of the raids and later colonisations of Britain were mounted. The region was called "Old Saxony" by the later descendants of Anglo-Saxon …
WebApr 26, 2024 · The Continental Saxons spoke a distinctive West Germanic brogue, Old Saxon, which is the ancestor of Low German. It first appears in writing in the Carolingian …
WebJun 15, 2023 · The Saxons were a Germanic people of the region north of the Elbe River stretching from Holstein (in modern-day Germany) to the North Sea. The Saxons who migrated to Britain in the 5th and 6th …
WebOld Saxon, also known as Old Low German, was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German. It is a West Germanic language, closely related to the …
WebOld Saxon language, earliest recorded form of Low German, spoken by the Saxon tribes between the Rhine and Elbe rivers and between the North Sea and the Harz Mountains …
WebThe Saxons were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country ( Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of …
WebOld Saxon, sometimes called Old Low German, was a Germanic language. It was spoken from the 8th to the 12th century. It was spoken in North Germany. Category: West …
WebThe Saxons or Saxon people are (today) a part of the German people, with their main areas of settlements in the German States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Westphalia, …
