Can we make isoglosses?

[Anton]

I still think 4 geese as tax for a goatherder seems excessive. Remember this was usually a yearly tax paid to the feudal lord whose employee the goatherder was who in turn paid the goatherder. It might make more sense if both goatherder and a large flock of goats belonged to the feudal lord / property owner, see my post on Bestandsvieh.

Well, this trail of feudal property relations that you described is not easy to follow. Suppose the goatherders were four in number? Or, if that looks too many (implies enourmous number of goats), then two by two? Two geese per each goatherder. Does that make sense?

Then, there must have been other employees beyond goatherders. Because there would have been cows, sheep, horses, pigs etc. Why goatherders would be specifically distinguished out of all of them? Or it's just coincidental that in these two cases there were goatherders exclusively?

I like the idea about geismich and geisjunge being the same thing, because it elegantly explains why those editors obsoleted the footnote without any explanation - it was evident to them that the two attributes are just one and the same. But the "property" connotation seems to me a bit shaky just because it implies unexplained emphasis on the goat-breeding side of the feudal agriculture.