Nick Perovich wrote:

>It seems to me much more likely that the threat of a "false, foreign rule"
>["in falscher, waelscher Majestaet"] that endangers the Germany of the
>future, in Sachs' premonition, with its "foreign vanities" ["mit waelschem
>Tand"] is to be seen as emanating from France rather than from the Jews.

I think Nick Perovich is right, "welsch" means foreign in modern German,
but the meaning changed from Old High German "walah, walh = a Latin" to
Middle High German "welhisch = one speaking Latin, and later a Romanic
language", but with a strong French connotation:  for instance the word
"Welschkohl" stands for savoy cabbage.  And it is for sure that "the
welschen Dunst mit welschem Tand sie pflanzen us in deutschen Land" goes
rather against the frivolites and bagatelles of the French and french (and
italian) opera in those times than against the Jews.

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