Traditions Danish, e. g., that of Havelok the Dane, at Grimsby.
Physiognomy, Danish.
Language not Danish in proportion to the other signs of Scandinavian intermixture.
Specimens of the dialects in its older form—Havelok[[82]] the Dane (?), Manning's Chronicle (supposing the MS. to have been transcribed in the county where the author was born).
Provincial peculiarities (i.e., deviations from the written language) nearly at the minimum.
Huntingdonshire, North Northamptonshire, and Rutland.—Anglo-Saxon period.—The latter part of the Saxon Chronicle was written at Peterboro. Probably, also, the poems of Helena and Andreas. Hence, this area is that of the old Mercian in its most typical form; whilst South Lancashire is that of the new—a practical instance of the inconvenience of applying political terms to philological subjects.
[§ 700]. Norfolk, Suffolk, and the fen part of Cambridgeshire.—Here the population is pre-eminently Angle. The political character East-Anglian rather than Mercian.
Specimens of the dialects in the Anglo-Saxon stage.—The Natale St. Edmundi, in Thorpe's Analecta Anglo-Saxonica.
Early English—The Promtuarium Parvulorum.