Re: Non-Indo-European in Germanic

According to Udolph's maps the place-names (PN in the genitive +)
-leben/-lev "fief(?)" and *haugaz "hill, mound" have approximately
the same distributions: Thuringia, Schleswig and Eastern Denmark with
Scania (I'd have to vouch for *haugaz on the latter, since Udolph's
map doesn't cover, but I think it holds).

So, in those areas someone (ie. a king) at one time had the power ti
distribute the land to his men, and some were buried in mounds.
Snorri concurs.

The other Germanic "mound" word. *hlaiw- (Latin cli:vus) is found at
the upper and middle Rhine and in England, plus a few in the
Nordwestblock.

Torsten