- the "velme"
does the character known as "Vögl
delle velme" take his name? "Vögl"
clearly means "old man" (in the Ladinian dialect of
Livinall
- the "velme"
does the character known as "Vögl
delle velme" take his name? "Vögl"
clearly means "old man" (in the Ladinian dialect of
Livinallongo, or "Fodom"), and this corresponds to Wolff's
description. And the "velme"? Wolff translates them
as "green alder-trees" (ted. Grün-Erlen),
and, as a matter of fact, the correct meaning of the Fodom word
results to be just this
one. However, "old man of the green alder-trees"
is apparently meaningless. As I describe elsewhere
in the site, according to prof. Palmieri's
wife it seems that at Selva di Cadore this word meant "sheaf"
or "haystack": from this interpretation I derived a
possible connection with the ancient smelting ovens,