tradition · Passage A.147

Claims

• B-013 D tradition supports

  A Meskhetian legend (recorded in ქართული დიალექტოლოგია, vol. I, p. 362) says that most of the village ერკოტი near ახალციხე are ბერიძეები descended from a single monk who fled ზარზმა monastery during a Tatar invasion, married in ერკოტი, took up farming while secretly continuing to serve the liturgy, and was recorded under the surname ბერიძე; his lineage was nicknamed ზანდარიენთი (earlier ზარზგიენთი). A second, unreferenced variant retold on Georgian Wikipedia says three brother-monks of ზარზმა were ordered to leave and raise families during a plague, one settling in აჭარა, one in მესხეთი and one in გურია, all recorded as ბერიძე. Neither variant is documentary history; they are origin tales of one Meskhetian village lineage.

• B-014 D tradition supports

  A Meskhetian legend (recorded for ერკოტი, Akhaltsikhe district, and reproduced in popular surname compilations) says most of the village's ბერიძეები descend from a single monk who fled the ზარზმა monastery during a Tatar invasion, took a wife in ერკოტი to avoid suspicion, and turned to farming while secretly still holding services. The tale adds that this lineage was once called ზარზგიენთ (evidently after ზარზმა) and is today called ზანდარიენთ. This is oral lore, not documented history.

• B-101 D tradition supports

  The monk of ერკოტა who fled Zarzma during a "Tatar" invasion, married, farmed, served the liturgy secretly დარბაზებში, and was written down as ბერიძე; lineage called ზარზგიენთ → ზანდარიენთ

  Folklore, recorded in ქართული დიალექტოლოგია I (1961), p. 362. A genuine field record with a named village and living lineage names — say that too; it earns respect without granting it historicity. The 1961 record misplaces the village in "Akhaltsikhe district"; it is Aspindza.