It contains a number of Old High German elements, because it was probably based on a Middle Franconian original.
The surviving fragments are handwritten copies made by the Renaissance scholar Justus Lipsius in the sixteenth century.
Lipsius made a number of separate copies of apparently the same material and these versions do not always agree.
In addition, scholars conclude that the numerous errors and inconsistencies in the fragments point not only to some carelessness or inattentiveness by the Renaissance scholars but also to errors in the now lost manuscript out of which the material was copied.
As might be expected from an interlinear translation, the word order of the Old Franconian text very closely follows that of the Latin original.