Old Saxon Baptismal Vow

The vow mentions three Germanic pagan gods of the early Saxons which the reader is to forsake: Uuôden ("Woden"), Thunaer and Saxnōt.

Scholar Rudolf Simek comments that the vow is of particular interest because it is the sole instance of the god Saxnōt mentioned in a religious context.

[1] Not withstanding the conventional name of the text, there is a dispute as to how the language of the text should be categorised, as it shows features of Old English, Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch) and Old Saxon (Old Low German).

The text (with Latin italicised) runs as follows:[1] While the manuscript of the vow is ninth-century, its language seems to be from the eighth.

[2][3][4][5] Key layers seem to be: In the glossary below, the spelling has been normalised: Media related to Sächsisches Taufgelöbnis at Wikimedia Commons