Talk:Wayzgoose

Waes - in Brabant or not in Brabant?

The article's section titled "Possible derivations" mentions in its second paragraph "the grand goose-feast annually held at Waes, in Brabant, at Martinmas." Two sentences later it states that "also there are no places called Waes or Waas in Brabant, but there are several places with "Waes" in their name in East Flanders." The two statements contradict each other, so one of them must be untrue. The first statement (saying Waes is in Brabant) is a quote from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannia, a reliable source although a misleading quote because it described a medieval event in the (now defunct) Duchy of Brabant. The second statement (that there are no places called Waes or Waas in Brabant) is rather woolly. It's too vague to be 100% reliable because yes, a Google search fails to throw up any Waes/Waas in central Belgium but the ex-duchy was split into lots of different regions in 1815 including the Brussels capital region and Belgium's South Brabant (1830-1995, which became in 1995 the three provinces of Flemish Brabant, Walloon Brabant and Antwerp), plus there's the North Brabant province in the Netherlands. So trying to find the modern location of the medieval "Waes in Brabant" is like looking for a needle in a haystack without expert ground knowledge (which I don't have). But the statement that there are no places called Waes or Waas in Brabant should be amended or clarified in some way so as to avoid the contradictory confusion. Pete Hobbs (talk) 23:36, 13 May 2019 (UTC)