Hebban Olla Vogala

Hebban olla vogala, sometimes spelt hebban olla uogala, are the first three words of an 11th century text fragment written in Old Dutch. The fragment was discovered in 1932 on the flyleaf of a manuscript that was probably made in the abbey of Rochester, Kent and is kept in Oxford. It is usually considered to represent a West Flemish variant of Old Low Franconian. The fragment is often incorrectly cited as being the oldest specimen of the Dutch language; it is, however, one of the oldest known sentences in western Old Dutch.