J Hofmann Kemp wrote:

Besides, I think we all know now that she is Old Prussian, descended straight from the legendary Widewuto..

But aren't the Old Prussians more closely related to Poles than Germans, if language is any guide? (which it is, I think, albeit imperfectly). OTOH, now that I think about it, mentioning Balto-Slavic was one of the alleged errors in US textbooks that somebody put on a junk page, and I seem to recall that this page was in fact Helga's. Perhaps she believes in Balto-Germanic?

-- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia-l@math.ucr.edu