Excerpt from Analecta Anglo-Saxonica, Vol. 1: Selections, in Prose and Verse, From the Anglo-Saxon Literature; With an Introductory Ethnological Essay, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory
In the preliminary Emay a cursory ethnographical review has been taken of the ancient and modern nations of Europe, drawn out upon philological principles, which, it is trusted, will not be unacceptable to the student, while some of the facts that it sets forth will have a tendency to correct many erroneous opinions imbibed from our com mon histories and other works. The difficulty has been in giving an epitome of what is a subject for volumes. Some slight changes have been ventured upon in the orthography of a few preper names for the sake of derivation, and to exhibit analogies. Philology, indeed, re quires that such amendments should become general. It is absurd that either ancient, or other forms should be allowed in our language, as modified by their passage through a second, and, in many in stances, also through a third tongue.
The specimen of N orman-f rench introduced from the Laws of William the Conqueror, as an appendix to the text, will be sufficient to exemplify that language, which coming in collision with the Anglo Saxon, was eventually obliged to yield to its stronger adversary, but not without leaving traces of its inroad in the subsequent speech of Great Britain.
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