Morten St George Theory

[-JKP-]

I'm not denying that the VMS could be depicting swallowtails or saddlebacks. I'm only saying that you can't claim this means that the VMS was written in Italy or Switzerland and not in Cathar country because we don't know what the Cathar edifices looked like. Not only Montségur, all their edifices were destroyed by the Crusaders. Carcassonne was spared only because the Cathars had already been expelled.

I don't see anybody claiming that in response to ANY of your messages and I'm tired of people putting words in other people's mouths. If it's a map, it might be territory that someone passed through, it doesn't mean it was written there. If it has Ghibelline merlons, it might be something someone heard about—it doesn't mean it was written there.

If someone claims it was written in Italy or Switzerland outside of the forum, go discuss it with them there, but don't bring straw men into the argument here because it makes it look like you are inventing detractors who don't exist. Most people on the forum, including me, have lists of possibilities, not hard and fast theories and if they do have a specific theory, then name them by name, so they can respond, rather than painting us all with the same brush and making it look like we have theories that we DON'T have.