Re[2]: [tied] Etymology for Pfennig

At 7:13:48 AM on Monday, December 8, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> In any case the Scandinavian terms certainly aren't from
>> German <pfennig>, or even OHG <pfenning>; if they're
>> borrowed rather than inherited, the source would appear
>> to be OE <pen(n)ing> or the like

> such as Low German, which has supplied many words in the
> Scandinavian languages

It would have to be OSax, OLFranc, or the like, since the
word appears was used by Bragi inn gamli (temp. Ragnarr
Loðbrók).

Brian