Re: [tied] Transhumance [Re: etyma for Crãciun]

At 6:56:18 AM on Monday, January 5, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:

> England is full of -tun place names. They are found on the
> continent too (very few in Scandinavia), especially in the
> area around Calais.

The English <-tu:n> names do not appear to belong to the
earliest layer of settlement names; in the earliest records
(to 731) <-ha:m> is the most common habitative element, and
there are just a handful of <-tu:n> names. Cameron has
suggested that <-tu:n> names were not being formed in great
numbers before the end of the 7th century.

> Udolph is very insistent that the place names (eg.
> -horst/-hurst) indicate that the Anglo-Saxon migration
> took place from the interior of Germany,

Why, given the evidence of Frisian?

Brian