 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1863 - 578 pages
...pronunciation, spelling, and various corruptions, so as to be unlike both ancient and modern German. They who now speak German, if brought into contact...with the soldiers of Arminius in the days of Augustus Ca•sar. So rapid indeed has been the change in Germany, that the epic poem called the Nibelungen... | |
 | Herbert William Morris - Bible and science - 1876 - 736 pages
...subjects of that monarch if these last could now be restored to life." The same holds true of Germany. " They who now speak German, if brought into contact...the change in Germany, that the epic poem called the NHxlungen Lied, once so popular, and only seven centuries old, cannot now be enjoyed except by the... | |
 | Stephen D. Houston, Oswaldo Fernando Chinchilla Mazariegos, David Stuart - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 584 pages
...pronunciation, spelling, and various corruptions, so as to be unlike both ancient and modern German. They who now speak German, if brought into contact...Germany, that the epic poem called the Nibelungen Lied, once so popular, and only seven centuries old, cannot now be enjoyed, except by the erudite. "If we... | |
 | Charles Lyell - Science - 2005 - 433 pages
...pronunciation, spelling, and various corruptions, so as to be unlike both ancient and modern German. They who now speak German, if brought into contact...Germany, that the epic poem called the Nibelungen Lied, once so popular, and only seven centuries old, cannot now be enjoyed, except by the erudite. If we... | |
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Norman conquest, because that large portion of our language (including the articles, pronouns, etc.) which is Saxon has also undergone great transformations by abbreviation, new modes of pronunciation, spelling, and various corruptions, so as to be unlike... 