Jim Bugslag wrote:
>....for the present, I tend to side with the development from antique sources
into Germanic traditions....
sorry, Jim, I'm not sure what you mean by "antique" here -- surely not
classical "antiquity"?
whereforeart these "antique sources"?
btw, curious it is to see that this fundamental and deceptively simple
problem, which must have been seriously re-visited repeatedly over the last
century (at least), still has no generally accepted solution.
Best,
Christopher
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