27-08-2017, 04:34 AM
The scan is courtesy of Nick Pelling and Rene Zandberger and was apparently located on the Web.
It's difficult to do image processing on something so faded and small and especially to bump up the contrast without imposing one's own interpretation on the glyphs, but this is what I see.
I cannot tell whether the last character on the first vord is r or s or something else.
What follows the gallows is very messy, there's an extra light loop and then three messy e or i shapes. Three c shapes is not uncommon, four sometimes happen in a row, but rarely.
I can't tell if the first character on the second vord is a or d but have interpreted it as a, keeping in mind that it might be d with a faded upper loop in the original scan.
I'm fairly sure that the second character is t and that the missing spot on the left leg is a pen skip, but the way the upper-left loop is drawn is a bit unusual, almost as though it were added as a separate stroke rather than continuing to the crossbar.
It's difficult to do image processing on something so faded and small and especially to bump up the contrast without imposing one's own interpretation on the glyphs, but this is what I see.
I cannot tell whether the last character on the first vord is r or s or something else.
What follows the gallows is very messy, there's an extra light loop and then three messy e or i shapes. Three c shapes is not uncommon, four sometimes happen in a row, but rarely.
I can't tell if the first character on the second vord is a or d but have interpreted it as a, keeping in mind that it might be d with a faded upper loop in the original scan.
I'm fairly sure that the second character is t and that the missing spot on the left leg is a pen skip, but the way the upper-left loop is drawn is a bit unusual, almost as though it were added as a separate stroke rather than continuing to the crossbar.