ORIGIN

OF

Lidderdale

THE ENGLISH,

GERMANIC AND SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES

AND NATIONS.

THE ORIGIN

OF

THE ENGLISH,

GERMANIC AND SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES,

AND NATIONS;

WITH

A SKETCH OF THEIR EARLY LITERATURE

AND SHORT CHRONOLOGICAL SPECIMENS OF

ANGLO-SAXON, FRIESIC, FLEMISH, DUTCH, GERMAN FROM
THE MESO-GOTHS TO THE PRESENT TIME, ICELANDIC,
NORWEGIAN, AND SWEDISH;

TRACING THE PROGRESS OF THESE LANGUAGES, AND THEIR CONNEXION WITH
MODERN ENGLISH:

TOGETHER WITH

REMARKS ON THE ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF ALPHABETIC WRITING,

AND ITS EXTENSION TO THE WEST.

A MAP OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

IS PREFIXED,

WITH NOTES, ON THE PROGRESSIVE POPULATION OF EUROPE FROM THE EAST, BY
THE IBERIANS, FINNS, CELTS, AND GERMANS, ESPECIALLY REFERRING TO
THE SETTLEMENT OF THE SAXONS IN BRITAIN.

BY

THE REV. JOSEPH BOSWORTH, D.D. F.R.S. F.S.A.

DR. PHIL. OF LEYDEN, ETC.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

MDCCCXLVIII.