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The origin of the construction seen in German man sagt = French on dit has frequently been discussed, especially from the Romance point of view; 1 the Teutonic material seems to be scattered in special grammars and dictionaries of the various languages concemed.2 As examples one may cite, for Old Icelandis: ma/Jr skal eptir man lifa "man shall live after man" ( Egils Saga 322), ma/Jr es manns gaman "man is man's comfort" (Hava-miil 46), sjndi ma/Jr manni "man showed it to man" (Fommanna Sogur 6. 2I6); Old Swedish wm dottur skal man swa wndirstanda "regarding a dap.ghter, one shall understand thus" ( Dalalagh 50.II), kopir man ko af manni "if one buys a cow from one" (ibid., 36.II) ; Old Saxon thiir scolde man ena briid geban "there [at Cana] one was to give a bride" (Heliaml I996), than mag man thiir dragan after thiu lihtlicora lib "then may one there bring thereafter worse wine" (ibid., 2054 = John 2. 10:The problem of man = on as an indefinite pronoun in A-S and OHG, with some relevant material from Early Dutch, is discussed at length in the following pages.The material is intentionally.drawn from the A-S translations of the Heptateuch, Psalms, and Gospels, and from the OHG Tatian, with parallel passages from the ED Tatian.The Psalter (I-50 in prose and the remainder in peri-
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