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 Moeso-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.
Bosworth, Joseph,1787 or 1788-1876.
London,
1848.