SC - Fish at Feasts

Valoise Armstrong vjarmstrong at aristotle.net
Fri Sep 18 15:43:09 PDT 1998


>Decker, Terry D. wrote:
>>
>> I think you will find wels is German.  The name may have some relation to
>> the town of Wels in Austria, but that is idle speculation.

To which Adamantius replied:
>I kinda thought so. Probably there was an association with the name Welserin,
>which, unless I've wildly misspelled it, would presumably mean "female native
>of Wels".

If you mean Welserin, as in Sabina, the association doesn't hold up. She's
a Welser from Augsburg in Germany, very prominent banking family in the
15th and 16th C.

Valoise


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