Note {16} — I. THE GERMANS AND THE EMPIRE TO 1073
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A much-discussed phrase, which has been used to show that the Salic law belongs to a period after the Frankish control had extended beyond the Loire. The word in the text (ligere) has also been taken to mean the river Leye, but this is not generally accepted. The Carbonaria (German, Kohlenwald) was a large forest in what is now Belgium.