Repost from Ancient Worlds: The Gallery of Germanic Languages. Here's the Lord's Prayer in the ancient language of the Saxons, Old Saxon (Old Low German). I've done the same text in each of several old Germanic languages, so you can listen and compare.

In this version, notice the old Germanic poetic structure of alliterative half-lines. Here's the text:

Fadar ûsa firiho barno,
thu bist an them hôhon himila-rîkea
geuuîhid sî thîn namo uuordo gehuuilico
cuma thîn craftag rîki
uuerþa thîn uuilleo obar thesa uuerold alla
sô sama an erþo sô thar uppa ist
an them hôhon himilo rîkea.

gef ûs dago gehuuilikes râd, drohtin the gôdo,
thîna hêlaga helpa, endi alât ûs hebenes uuard
managoro mênsculdio al sô uue ôþrum mannum dôan
ne lât ûs farlêdean lêþa uuihti
sô forþ an iro uuilleon sô uui uuirþige sind
ac help ûs uuiþar allun ubilon dâdiun.

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