From: dgkilday57
Message: 65489
Date: 2009-12-03
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@> wrote:Sloppy thinking on my part; indeed it is ludicrous to infer anything about economic systems on the basis of a single word. Sometimes I get carried away with this stuff.
>
> [...]
>
> > I like that. Gmc. *xu:rjo: 'payment, land-tax' would originally
> > be 'payment for housing', pre-shifted *ku:syá: beside *kú:som
> > 'house, housing, building'. The restriction of *xu:rjo: and
> > *xu:rjan 'to pay for services, house, hire' to the NWB area
> > suggests that feudalism was imposed there when the Germans took
> > over, AFTER Grimm and Verner, with terminology that became obsolete
> > elsewhere.
>
> 'Feudalism' is not a well-defined term. (See, for instance,
> Susan Reynolds, Fiefs and Vassals.)
> [...]Yes, that seems to be Jaekel's implicit argument. I suppose the only way to see the manuscript is by going to the monastery, which might be practical for Torsten, but not for me.
>
> >>> Er verwechselt s und r sehr haeufig; so schreibt er z.b.
> >>> 'videmus' statt 'videmur',
>
> >> Could be bad grammar, not Schreibfehler.
>
> > Or simple absent-mindedness, writing 'we see' for the less common
> > 'we seem'. I have not yet looked at the full text.
>
> Note that in many medieval hands long-r and long-s are very similar.
> It would be easy to write (or read) one for the other.