That is the third determination and concession of King Charles, that of
all men each one possess his own goods (house?) unrobbed. It may not be
that any man overcome him with charge (tales), and with summons (rede),
and with legal action. So let him hold as his Asega (judge) dooms and
deals according to the land-right of the people. There shall no Asega
deal a doom unless it be that before the Caesar of Rome he shall have
sworn, and that he shall have been by the people chosen. He has then to
doom and deal to foes as to friends, through the force (will) of the
oath which he before the Caesar of Rome has sworn, to doom and to deal
to widows and orphans, to wayfarers and all defenceless people, to help
them as his own kind in the third degree. If the Asega take an illegal
reward, or pledged money, and a man convict him before two of his
colleagues in the King's Court, he has no more to doom, since it is the
Asega that betokens the priest, and they are seeing, and they should be
the eyes of the Holy Christendom, they should help all those who may
nought help themselves.
s. 82. _The Low German and Platt-Deutsch._--The words _Low German_ are not
only lax in their application, but they are _equivocal_; since the term has
two meanings, a _general_ meaning when it signifies a division of the
Germanic languages, comprising English, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, Old Saxon, and
Frisian, and a limited one when it means the particular dialects of the
Ems, the Weser, and the Elbe. To avoid this the dialects in question will
be henceforth called by their continental name of _Platt-Deutsch_; which
although foreign, is convenient.
s. 83. The points of likeness and difference between two languages
belonging to different branches of the same Gothic stock may be partially
collected from the following comparison between certain Icelandic, Norse or
Scandinavian, and certain Anglo-Saxon or Germanic inflections.
Declension of substantives ending with a _vowel_.
_Saxon._ _Icelandic._
_Neuter._ _Neuter._
_Sing. Nom._ E['a]ge (_an eye_). Auga (_an eye_).
_Acc._ E['a]ge Auga.
_Dat._ E['a]gan Auga.
_Gen._ E['a]gan Auga.
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_Plur. Nom._ E['a]gan Augu.
_Acc._ E['a]gan Augu.
_Dat._ E['a]gan Augum.
_Gen._ E['a]gan Augna.
_Masculine._ _Masculine._
_Sing. Nom._ Nama (_a name_). Bogi (_a bow_).
_Acc._ Naman Boga.
_Dat._ Naman Boga.
_Gen._ Naman Boga.
_Plur. Nom._ Naman Bogar.
_Acc._ Naman Boga.
_Dat._ Namum Bogum.
_Gen._ Namena Boga.
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