[tied] Re: Why did Proto-Germanic break up?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 28-10-03 16:22, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>
> > I'd say that NW Germanic remained a dialect
> > continuum until about 400 BC; ...
>
> Oops, I mean AD 400.
>

Whichever way, according to Peschel there is an archaelogical break
after Jastorf, sometime in the first century BCE, and you assume the
same language continued to be spoken.

Torsten