The Philological Essays of the Late Rev. Richard Garnett, of the British Museum

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It also appears to have acted powerfully upon the spoken dialect oi the Western Mercians, who were originally Ang- latamon's brut. 139 les, but who seem to have gradually adopted various pecu- liarities of the West -Saxon speech. The Anglian branch, including the Northumbrian division of it, once boasted of a flourishing and extensive literature; but civil commotions and the ravages of foreign invaders gradually caused the bulk of it to disappear. A few fragments fortunately es- caped the gener
...al wreck. Besides the verses uttered by Bede on his death-bed , the inscription on the Ruthwell Cross, and the fragment of Caedmon printed in Wanley's Catalogue, we have in the Durham Ritual, published by the Surtees Society, and in the celebrated Gospels, Cott. MS. Nero, D.
4 , undoubted specimens of the language of Northumbria in the tenth century. A portion of the Gloss to the Rushworth Gospels in the Bodleian Library, supposed to have been written in Yorkshire, is in the same dialect. The Glosses to the Psalter, Cott.


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