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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.
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