(29-08-2025, 04:36 PM)Bernd wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is two variants: gaismich Gens and Gaisiunnge gens. Unfortunately the latter is not digitized so we only know the potential spelling from a transcription which has some uncertainties. A season or holiday would be logical and is certainly true for the chickens, the problem with this hypothesis is that apart from these 2 entries the term gaismich never shows up elsewhere. Despite searching through countless of these documents and finding some other geese, it's always just geese. If this was a seasonal term, we should expect it to pop up somewhere else. I also looked into these holidays where tithe was to be paid and found nothing even remotely similar. It has been suggested that this is an agricultural term denoting either a breed or life stage of geese but that's also speculation.
The problem is-mich. There's not really any valid use for this suffix except "me, myself". We had the discussion about milk which ended rather fruitless. At least for lower Austria I'd rule that out.
The VM phrase appears incomplete ending with a circle or O after 'gasmich'. I agree the script is rather shaky which contrasts the imagery. I think the best explanation is that the author could draw (yes, we tend to forget how tiny the drawings are), but not write properly. It may very well be that he jumbled or mixed up several letters.
I agree, the interpretation has its weaknesses, to put it mildly.
Where do you find the other version? Gaisiunnge gens might be a misreading according to this: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.