Right, but the spreadsheet also includes entries found by earlier researcher, which also trend Northern French. And I know that there was quite some interest in Occitan month names in the past. In fact, my reason for making this thread initially had been that people said "northern French" and "Occitan" and even "German" with the same confidence, and I wanted to collect the actual evidence that had been presented up to that point, because I had no idea who was right.
I suspect that people have, in fact, looked elsewhere, but that the encountered sequences have often not been worth mentioning. Go too far south and you get wildly different spellings. Move into Germanic areas and you lose the -re endings (and gain Mertz).
That said, I would not yet rule out French/MHG border areas like Alsace and Switzerland. The more south-eastern French dialects would certainly make for a neater connection to regions of interest for the VM.
I suspect that people have, in fact, looked elsewhere, but that the encountered sequences have often not been worth mentioning. Go too far south and you get wildly different spellings. Move into Germanic areas and you lose the -re endings (and gain Mertz).
That said, I would not yet rule out French/MHG border areas like Alsace and Switzerland. The more south-eastern French dialects would certainly make for a neater connection to regions of interest for the VM.
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