[§ 59]. The Saxon of England is called Anglo-Saxon; a term against which no exception can be raised.
[§ 60]. The Saxon of the Continental used to be called Dano-Saxon, and is called Old Saxon.
[§ 61]. Why called Dano-Saxon.—When the poem called Heliand was first discovered (and that in an English library), the difference in language between it and the common Anglo-Saxon composition was accounted for by the assumption of a Danish intermixture.
[§ 62]. Why called Old Saxon.—When the Continental origin of the Heliand was recognised, the language was called Old Saxon, because it represented the Saxon of the mother-country, the natives of which were called Old Saxons by the Anglo-Saxons themselves. Still the term is exceptionable; the Saxon of the Heliand is most probably a sister-dialect of the Anglo-Saxon, rather the Anglo-Saxon itself is a continental locality. Exceptionable, however, as it is, it will be employed.
[§ 63]. The data for the study of the Old Saxon are as follows:—
1. Abrenuntiatio Diaboli, e Codice Vaticano.—Graff, Diutisca, ii. 191.
2. Confessionis Formulæ, e Codice Essensi.—Lacomblet, Archiv, für Geschichte des Niederrhins, 1, 4-9.
3. Fragmentum de Festo omnium Sanctorum, e Codice Essensi.—Ibid.
4. Rotulus redituum Essensis.—Ibid.