--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> But <erilaz> occurs commonly in Old Runic, long before the loss of
medial /x/. As I have just shown, the addition of an orthographic <h-
> in Latinised Germanic proper names is both explicable and well
documented. Neither in Scandinavian nor in West Germanic, where the
syncopated variant *erla- is amply attested, does it have religious
connotations. The "erils" were people -- Germanic VIPs of some kind,
to be sure, but not gods, demigods or legendary heroes.
>
> Piotr
If the Heruli were driven from their settlements by the Dani it is
safe to assume that those settlements were within the North Germanic
speaking area. Therefore W. Germanic *erla- (examples?) might be an
import.
/x/ would have been lost in some contexts before others. Are there
any examples of Runic -rxl-?
Torsten