Excerpt from A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature: And Its Celebrated Authors From the Twelfth Century Down to the Present Time Origin of the Language. - First Use in Official Documents. - Traditions, Songs, Ballads, Romances, Epics. Before we give a sketch, of Flemish Literature, we deem it necessary to say a few words on the Dialect itself, of which little is clearly known. Flemish is not the obscure remains of an extinct idiom, like the Basque and Bas Breton languages; it is not either a dialect of the widely spread Germanic tongue. It forms a part of the two principal branches of this last idiom, made use of along the coasts of the Northern and Baltic Seas, from Dunkirk to Konigsberg, and from Flensbourg in Denmark to the Hartz Mountains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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