PS. I wrote that the Saxons in Germany have no idea today what their distant Saxon cousins there in England speak, and vice versa. That is of course excepting the English so many modern day Germans have educated themselves in (another marvel unto itself), where Saxony of old (Niedersachsen) can once again wiggle its finger and freely converse with its Saxon cousins in Britain, and vice versa (though today it is almost always in friendly banter, and in a new language to boot). When you think of it all - and the ironies - it's all too much!