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[cvetkakocj@rogers.com]

Landinish grammar was not established before 19th century, and the language had changed a lot between the 15th and 18th century. First Slovenian grammar book was written in Slovenian in the mid-16th century. With the use of Latin script, the Germanization and Italization is clearly visible in the subsequent writing.
There was a lot of comperative linguistic and ethnological studies done by a group of experts and their findings are published in Slovenian journals.

[R. Sale]

In heraldic terminology, a 'vol' of 'Flug' is a pair of conjoined wings. There are also 'open' or separated variations.

Are there any other potential parts of a bird that can be seen in the VMs illustration? Besides the wings?

Why is this not a vol?

As far as matching feather patterns, that's very unlikely. The cloud band investigation showed, in the multitude of examples, that each artist had their own technique of representation. Heraldry is more regulated than regular artistry. And heraldry has no rules on how to arrange the feathers of an eagle's wing, and much less on a vol.

[Koen G]

I think R.Sale is right that this image is rather ambiguous: with the countless examples of eagles, assorted poultry and winged creatures in heraldry (and iconography in general), it seems pointless to pick a single one. Also, while I always saw this as a bird, I've also seen people interpret it as angel's wings. Can we really exclude either one?

[R. Sale]

Perhaps, they are too dark for angel's wings? Why not demons? There are plenty of them flying around in some images. But they would have to be ones with feathers and that's another problem. And then there are dark angels, so I'm sticking with bird wings.

[bi3mw]

About the heraldic eagle root on f46v:

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[Juan_Sali]

Both carbon dating and fashion

I found this site about fashion in 15th century:
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