Note 72 — Chapter I
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Some, however, derive the name from the Old German word saljan, i.e. to grant, in reference to part of the territory occupied by the Salian Franks having been granted to them by the Romans (by Carausius, in 287, confirmed at a later period by Julian the Apostate). Leo derives the name from the Celtic word, Sal, i.e. the sea.