I've uploaded a good deal of the maps of place names from Udolph's
'Namenkundliche Studien zum Germanenproblem' to the file section.
-> Arnaud: You might want to compare the map 47 -leben and -lev with
the map 48 lauha.
-> Brian: re a dispute we had over whether those that wanted to take
part in the colonization of Britain stayed temporarily in
Pas-de-Calais waiting for 'employment', see map 52 tuun; I've claimed
a sequence of conquest something like Thuringia > Lower Elbe > NWBlock
> Jutland/Funen > Mälar valley (Stockholm area, Svear) > NFrance
>England; this would match if the *tu:n name began to be used of a
colonization settlement in the Mälar valley and gained popularity from
there; Udolph notes the many *al-tu:n's; they might be communal.
-> George: As you can see with a few exceptions the placenames are
found west of the line of maximum Slavic expansion: eg. 53 werder and
54 werd(er), and 31 fenn (this latter can be explained by Dutch
settlers in the German east colonization, note the empty gap between
Weser and Elbe)
Torsten