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zio.
phatically their VigaguS (deus proeliorum), Sn. 105, and again :
hann er diarfastr ok best hugaftr, ok liann rceffr mioc sigri i orostom,
Sn. 29 (see Suppl.).
No doubt there were mountains hallowed to Zio, as well as to
Wuotan and Donar ; the only difficulty is, to know which god,
Wuotan or Zio, was meant by a particular name. May we place
to his credit the name of the abbey of Siegburg in the Lower
Ehine, which was founded in 1064 on a mountain where the
ancient assize of the people was held? From that time the moun
tain was to have been called Mons sancti Michaelis after the
Christian conqueror, but the heathen Sigcbcrg could not be dislodged,
it was only distorted into Siegburg j
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or are we to explain the name
the district ? The ON.
by the river Sieg, which flows through
Ssein. 348a
Sfgtysberg (OS. Sigu-tiwis-berag?), might belong to Oolnn
or to Tyr. The Weimar map has in section 38 a Tisdorf, and in.
section 48 a Ziesberg, both in Lower Saxon districts on the Elbe.
A place
in Zealand, about which there are folk-tales, is TyUerg
(Thiele 2, 20) ; also in Zealand are Tisvelde (Ti s well), Tysting in
;
Jutland, Tystatlie,
Tiislunde. In Sweden: Tistad, Tisby, Tisjo,
Tyved. Zierlerg in Bavaria (Cirberg, Zirberc, MB. 11, 71-3-5-6)
and Zierenberg in Lower Hesse may be derived from the collateral
form (see Suppl.). The mons Mart is at Paris (Montmartre), of
which even Abbo de bell. Par. 2, 196 makes mention, has to do
with the Gallic Mars, whom some take to be Belus, others Hesus.
With far better right than the Parisian mons Martis (yet conf. Waitz s
Salic law, p. 52), we may assign to Zio the fanum Martis, now
Famars in Hainault (p. 84), according to Herm. Miiller the Old
Frankish Disbargum (or Disbargus) in termino Toringorum of
Greg. tur. 2, 9, Chlodio s castellum. Dis- would be a Latinized form
of Tis = Tives, perhaps recalling Dispiter, Diespiter
there is no
;
Gallic word like it looking towards Mars, and the district is thor
oughly Frankish, with Liphtinae close by, where we have Saxnot
named by the side of Thunar and Wodan. As for Eresberg and
Mersberg (3 or 4 pp. on), I have compared
the oldest documents in
Seibertz: no. 11 (anno 962) gives us Eresburg; no. 25 (1030) already
Mersburg ; 1, 98 (1043) mons Eresburg ; no. 51 (1150) mons Eres
berg ; no. 70 (1176) mons Eresberch ; no. 85 (1184) Heresburg;
i Docum. in Lacomblet,
no. 203-4.