The West Germanic languages include the following languages:
The West Germanic languages include the following languages:
1. Old English or Anglo-Saxon language. The oldest monuments of this language date back to the 7th century.
2. Ancient German language. Old German is the ancestor of the modern German literary language.Among the ancient manuscripts of the Old German language, the following scriptures should be highlighted:- glosses - small dictionaries for Latin texts, or translations into German of individual words of the Latin text;- translations of works of a religious and classical nature, made by the head of the Notker monastery school in the late 10th early 11th centuries A.D. Notker in his works tried to convey the real sound of living speech, therefore, for the German language, his works are of great importance, to a greater extent because of the spelling system;- the poem "Muspilli" refers to the second half of the 19th century. The poem is a work in which the picture of the end of the world and the Last Judgment is depicted in bright colors;- "The Song of Ludwig" is a work that speaks of the victory of King Ludwig III over the Normans. The work belongs to the 9th century;- "Song of Hildebrand", a work that is a mixture of forms of Old Saxon and Old German languages; this monument dates back to the beginning of the 9th century [1];- "Merseburg incantations" - two early medieval incantations written in Old High German. They are the only monuments of German pagan culture preserved in this language; they mention characters from Germanic-Scandinavian mythology. They were discovered by Georg Weitz in 1841 in a theological manuscript from Fulda, recorded in the 9th or 10th century. This manuscript is in the library of the cathedral in Merseburg. The first spell deals with getting rid of the shackles and fleeing from the captured enemy, the second - the treatment of a dislocated horse's leg
