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Of course the Brits use Old-English as a valid linguistical term !!! It's a political issue, not linguistical. If you don't like the simple way of putting it "High-german derivated from low-german (thus low-saxon) in the 7th century" just say that they both derivated from a common ancestor from...

5th century = old-saxon. "English" as a name of a language is not appropriate linguistically before at least the 9th century, and even then, it's a very english-friendly tradition to call english of the 9th century "old english". Old-low-saxon is the common ancester of english, low-german (thus...