Re: Nordwestblock, Germani, and Grimm's law

> > Occam would love me. So much explained from so few entibus!
> > Whatever extra in the sociology/ethnology department has to be
> > accepted would have to be assumed to explain the distribution of
> > *kaN-t-, and further *saxn- (vel sim).
>
> The latter also occurs in your favorite IE language as an epithet of
> Reitia, you know.

How do you like this then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver_sacrum
'Dumezil recalls that of the two versions of the foundation of Rome, one seems to make reference to a Ver Sacrum and the other states the fact explicitly. This last one says that sacrani come from the town of Reate, today Rieti, expelled the indigenous Ligures and Siculi from the place that would later become the Septimontium.'


Torsten