s. 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. s. 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. s. 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 Formulae, e Codice Essensi._--Lacomblet, Archiv, fuer Geschichte des Niederrhins, 1, 4-9. 3. _Fragmentum de Festo omnium Sanctorum, e Codice Essensi._--Ibid. 4. _Rotulus redituum Essensis._--Ibid. 5. _The Frekkenhorst Roll._--Denkmaeler von Dorow, 1, 2, 1. 6. _Glossae Saxonicae, e Codice Argentorat._--Diutisca, 192. 7. _T. Lipsii; Epist. cent. III. ad Belgas pertinentium, Ep._ 44. 8. _Hildebrand._--Heroic fragment, in alliterative metre. 9. _The Carolinian Psalms._--A translation of the Psalms, referred to the time of Charlemagne; sometimes considered to be old Batavian. 10. _Heliand_, a Gospel Harmony in alliterative metre, and the chief _Old_ Saxon composition extant. {26} SPECIMEN. s. 64. _Heliand_, pp. 12, 13. (_Schmeller's Edition._) LUC. II. 8-13.