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The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany
The remains of a seax together with a reconstructed replica
The later stem duchy of Saxony (c. 1000 AD), which was based in the Saxons' traditional homeland bounded by the rivers Ems, Eider and Elbe
The Weser bones, 400–450 CE, were found on the lower Weser and are inscribed with images and Runes in a dialect probably ancestral to Old Saxon; individual bones show men attacking bulls and a Roman trading ship. The inscriptions may be curses.
Old Saxon
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Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German, was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German. It is a West Germanic language, closely related to the Anglo-Frisian languages. It is doc
Saxons
…him. In the mid-9th century, Nithard first described the social structure of the Saxons beneath their leaders. The caste structure was rigid; in the Saxon language the three castes, excluding slaves, were called the edhilingui (related to the term aetheling), frilingi and lazzi. These terms were subsequently…
Heliand excerpt from the German Historical Museum in Berlin