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. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebban_olla_vogala