From: tgpedersen
Message: 60043
Date: 2008-09-15
>http://www.earlypoetry.co.uk/widsith.htm
>
> Considering the supposed b/v alternation of the Veneti, perhaps the
> new name of the Langobardi did not mean "longbeards" but that they
> came from Langwarden?
> http://nona.net/features/map/placedetail.483240/Langwarden/
> (the area might once have been bigger)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butjadingen
> Also (perhaps) Chat-var(-d)- > Hadbard- > Hagbard- by assimilation?
> That would mean a connection between the -varii of various Latinized
> names of Germanic tribes, and the Pre-IE (Semitic?) -waard/-werder
> element of placenames (meaning probably "flat area enclosed by
> streams")
> (see
> Files > Maps from Udolph > 53 werder.jpg and
> Files > Maps from Udolph > 54 werd(er).jpg
> )