TY  - JOUR
AU  - Marc Pierce
AU  - Collin Brown
PY  - 2022
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Mediaevistik
IS  - 1
VL  - 34
SN  - 2199-806X
TI  - Old Saxon as a Starting Point for the Study of Germanic Linguistics and Philology
DO  - 10.3726/med.2021.01.01
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1238947
N2  - In this paper, we argue that Old Saxon is the best starting point for the study of Germanic linguistics and philology. We first introduce the issue, drawing on papers published in the late 1960s by Ulrich Groenke and W. Freeman Twaddell to do so. This is followed by a section evaluating other potential starting points for the area, specifically the other early Germanic languages and the history of German. We then make the case for Old Saxon, which is based on the high literary quality of the Old Saxon 
KW  - Germanic linguistics, Germanic philology, Old Saxon
ER  -