23-06-2026, 09:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-06-2026, 09:20 AM by JustAnotherTheory.)
(22-06-2026, 09:16 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."Poxleber" has been found only once as an extremely rare spelling variation of the common "pocksleber" in a ca. 1500 law of the city of Kitzbuhel (Tyrol). Here, it is nothing more than a cut of meat, the liver of the male goat.
"Poxleber" has been found a few times in the work of Hans Sachs, as extremely vulgar curses uttered by peasants in his ca. 1550 carnival plays. Today's words with the same impact would be of a sexual nature, like motherf*cker or c*cks*cker. Anyone who for some reason still wishes to champion this reading should keep that in mind. It's not as mild as "goddammit" sounds today, which is why it's only written down 100 years after the VM was made, in carnivalesque contexts.
To me, this indicates that the marginalia was added probably after 1500. Is there any reason to think otherwise?
Perhaps this indicates that the VMS, after its creation in the early 1400s Northern Italy, found its way to Tyrol.