Thread:User talk:CodeCat/frawjōn/reply (7)

If it can be read like I called CodeCat an "extremist", I apologize to CodeCat. Let's examine the texts at Old_Dutch (I only need to quote):
 * Hebban olla vogala
 * "Old Kentish"


 * The Wachtendonck Psalms
 * "Very little remains of them", it "contains a number of Old High German elements".


 * The Leiden Willeram
 * "Until recently" ... "is manuscript was believed by most scholars to be Middle Franconian, that is Old High German"


 * The Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible
 * "a mixed dialect containing Low German, Old Dutch and High German (Rhine-Franconian) elements"

I think they were written in Late Western Germanic. It may have had dialects, but "Show preview" still doesn't work
 * 1) the dialects mixed: see Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible and Wachtendonck Psalms above
 * 2) people who could write, almost certainly could speak several dialects
 * 3) the dialects of writers were not restricted by modern day borders; worldly rulers and monastic orders dispersed their representatives to avoid local independence movements, traders also trade across the border