To a writer who (at one and the same time) finds difficulty in believing that this similarity is accidental and is dissatisfied with Grimm's reasoning, there seems to be no other alternative but to consider that the Goths of the Lower Danube had no existence at all in Germany _under that name_, that they left their country under a different[5] one, and that they took the one by which they were known to the Romans (and through them to us), on reaching the land of the _Getae_--as, in England, the Saxons of _Essex_ and _Wessex_ did _not_ (since they brought their name with them), but as the East and West _Kent-ings_[6] did. This doctrine, of course, falls to the ground directly it can be shown that the Goths of Moesia were either called _Goths_ in Germany, or any where else, anterior to their settlement in the _Geta_-land. Be this, however, as it may, the first division of the Teutonic branch of languages is the Moeso-Gothic of the Goths of the Lower Danube, in the fourth century, as preserved in the translation of Ulphilas, and in other less important fragments. SPECIMEN. LUKE i. 46-56. Jah quath Mariam. Mikileid saivala meina Fan, jah svegneid ahma meins du Gotha nasjand meinamma. Unte insahu du hnaivenai thiujos seinaizos: {35} sai allis fram himma nu audagjand mik alla kunja. Unte gatavida mis mikilein sa mahteiga, jah veih namo is. Jah armahairtei is in aldins ald[^e] thaim ogandam ina. Gatavida svinthein in arma seinamma; distahida mikilthuhtans gahugdai hairtins seinis; gadrausida mahteigans af stolam, jah ushauhida gahnaividans; gredigans gas[^o]thida thiuthe, jah gabignandans insandida lausans; hleibida Israela thiumagu seinamma, gamundans armahairteins, sva sve rodida du attam unsaraim Abrahaima jah fraiv is und aiv. s. 77. The Old High German, called also Francic and Alemannic, was spoken in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries, in Suabia, Bavaria, and Franconia. It is in the Old High German that the Krist of Otfrid, the Psalms of Notker, the Canticle of Willeram, the Glosses of Kero, the Vita Annonis, &c., are composed. SPECIMEN. KRIST, i. 12. (Edit. Graff.)