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Excerpt from Handbook of the History of the English Language for the Use of Teacher and Student
In later works, however, Dr. Morris gives up the point, and quietly returns to the use of the really indispensable terms Saxon and anglo-saxon. Thus, at p. 32 of the Preface to his Chaucer we have: 'in anglo-saxon fan'e'r, brotfier, a'oug/zter took no in?exion in the singular.' And again: 'this construction occurs in a.s. Writers, ' p. 36 verbs of Saxon origin, ' p. 37, and elsewhere paw'm.as applicable both to the people and to their language. Thus in the vvz'd one of the oldest, if not the very oldest, piece of Saxon poetry extant, the Seojb or 'wide wanderer' tells us -that amongst the many tribes and peoples visited by him were the Saxons And mid [enum and mid Seaxum ic waes: ' p. 322 of Thorpe's 'codex Exoniensis.' In the same poem, and probably for the first time in an English text, Angle occurs under the forms Ongle and Eagle four times O?'a weold Ongle 5 mid englum ic wees, &c.
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