Tor/Tur/(e) [Re: Vanir,etc.]

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> Sorry about Taurinum, I should have checked here
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> http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/orblatt.html
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> Full of Tur-/Tor- names. As for what *tur- in Turicum is, none of

us

> can say. I'm just observing that the element *tur- is all over the
> place.
>

For some reason, Thuringia is also called Loringi. Thor had some
dealing with a Loricus, according to Snorri, whatever that means.

Torsten