tradition · Passage A.234

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-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.

• B-306 refuted supports

  "33+ surnames descend from ბერიძე"

  Conflates the ბერ-root family (large and old) with derivation from ბერიძე, for which there is no evidence beyond the small Beridzeshvili group.