Talk:Hallstatt
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[edit] burial Time
According to the german speaking wikipedia the skulls and bone are unearhed after 20 to 30 years.
stefanbcn http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Stefanbcn 62.57.7.217 02:24, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
quote:
"Nach etwa 20 bis 30 Jahren werden die Gebeine exhumiert...."
source:http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt#Sehensw.C3.BCrdigkeiten
[edit] Brythonic Celts
The dismissal of the etymology of Hall=salt seems too conclusive.
Hall is close to a form meaning salt in Brythonic languages. Saying that continental Celts did not use the same form does not preclude the etymology. As I understand it, Brythonic celts made their way across continental Europe prior to the Goidelic peoples. Thus they could have left a mark on place names. It is one thing to say that you cannot claim with any certainty that "Hall" comes from celtic for salt. But dismissing the etymology altogether seems tendentious. Johngfox
The Celts essentially came from central Europe, so it's not reasonable to suggest that Brythonic or Goidelic peoples passed through continental Europe on the way to the British Isles. It is fairly reasonable to assume that the same kinds of sound changes that occur in one branch of a language family (e.g. Brythonic) occur independently within another branch (e.g. eastern continental Celtic), likely motivated by the same stimuli. So it is reasonable to assume that whatever changed s > h in Brythonic would do the same in some continental languages. What is not reasonable is to make a pronouncement against the widely accepted view that hall in Hallstatt comes from Celtic with utterly no support for that position (like a citation for example). And suggesting that 'hall' comes from an OHG word meaning salt is just silly, given that salt is salt across Germanic (even going back to Gothic), except in High German (Old, Middle, & New) where it is Salz (owing to the High German consonant shift). Accordingly, I've changed the etymology to reflect was is more widely accepted. Any competing theories could be noted, but should include some source attribution and should be noted as controversial. Oskilla (talk) 05:28, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
