As he grew up he never used the name Gås-Anders, and it was not until the 1920s that folk musicians started referring to him by that name, which was by now used as a positive epithet rather than a slur.
Over time, as he developed, he never used his given name Gås-Anders, but it was in the 1920s that folk musicians started using this name to refer to him, and by then it had taken on a positive connotation.