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Excerpt from A Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue: With a Praxis But this circumstance renders it still more necessary to German scholars: to them the Anglo Saxon is almost what the Icelandic is to those 0 Denmark, Sweden, and Norway; not because tht German and Dutch can, strictly Speaking, be con sidered as derived from it, but because, of ti old-saxon, and other ancient, exstinct, dialects from which they are derived, such small fragment: are transmitted to us, that they must, in great mea sure, be' explained and illustrated by the aid of the anglo-saxon; to which tongue recourse may b1 had, where the others completely desert the phi lologist; for the Icelandic lies more remote fo Germans, though quite as interesting to them, a anglo-saxon to Scandinavians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.