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PALTAR.
Pfalspiunt, 5, 399 anno 1290), now Pfalzpoint on the Altmiihl,
between Eichstadt and Kipfenberg, in a considerable forest. Piunt
means an enclosed field or garden ;* and if an ea could be conse
crated to a god, so could a field. Graff 3, 342 has a place called
Yiswunpiunt, which, to judge by the circumstances, may with like
reason be assigned to the goddess Frouwa; no doubt it also belongs
to Bavaria (see SuppL).
In the Fulda Traditions (Schannat p. 291, no. 85) occurs this
remarkable passage: Widerolt comes tradidit sancto Bonifacio
quicquid proprietatis habuit in Pholesbrunnen in provincia Thur-
ingiae.
To this Pholesbrunno, the village of Phulsborn has the first
claim, lying not far from the Saale, equidistant
from the towns
Apolda, Dornburg and Suiza, and spelt in Mid. Age documents
Phulsborn and Pfolczborn ; there is however another village, Falsbrunn
or Falsbronn, on the Eauhe Eberach in the Franconian
Steigerwald. Now Pfolesbrunno all the more plainly suggests a
as there are also Baldersbrunnen : a
divinity (and that, Balder),
Baldebrunno has been produced from the Eifel mts, and from the
Rhine Palatinate, 2 and it has been shown that the form ought to be
corrected into Baldersbrunno as well as the modern Baldenhain to
Baldershain (Zeitschr. f. d. alt. 2, 256) ; and Bellstadt in the Klingen
district of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was formerly Baldersteti,
Schannat dioec. Fuld. p. 244, anno 977 (see SuppL). From the
Norse mythus of Balder, as given by Saxo, we learn that Balder in
the heat of battle opened a fountain for his languishing army:
Victor Balderus, ut afflictum siti militem opportuni liquoris beneficio
recrearet, novos humi latices terram altius rimatus aperuit, quorum
erumpentes scatebras sitibundum agmen hianti passim ore captabat.
Eorundem vestigia sempiterna firmata vocabulo, quamquam pristina
admodum scaturigo desierit, nondum prorsus exolevisse creduntur.
This spot is the present Baldersbrond near Roeskild (note to Miiller s
Saxo, p. 120). But the legend may be the same as old German
legends, which at a later time placed to king Charles s account (p.
117, and infra, Furious host) that which heathendom had told of
1 A Salzburg doc. of the tenth cent., in Kleinmayrn p. 196 : Curtilem
locum cum duobus pratis, quod piunti dicimus.
2 Conf. Schopflin s Alsat. dipl. no. 748, anno 1285 : in villa Baldeburne.
A Westphal. doc. of 1203 (Falke trad. corb. p. 5G6) names a place Balderbroc,
which might mean palus, campus Balderi.