Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Fair point, this thread is actually a testament to how we tried.

Morten, if you feel like you have been treated unfairly here, you are welcome to look for other people who do like your theory.
Emma, your problem can be solved by not clicking on this thread 

Sir, I am not looking for people who like my theory. I'm looking for scholars to refute it (if anyone can) or to help improve it.

So far, I am not disappointed with this group. You guys have convinced me that the swamps are more likely to be located on the north side of the Gulf of Mexico than on the south side of the Caribbean.

Though I still believe the original swamp depictions were made of deerskin parchment (it's common sense: why else depict a deer on the last page?), you guys have convinced me that the current VMS is more likely to be bison parchment than alpaca parchment.

I am not the first to suggest contact with Mexico (where bison lived). Based on botanical and zoological (iguana) considerations, others have suggested that the VMS is written in the Nahuatl language. I don't know about that, but I firmly maintain that the red-star passages transcribe Latin.

An open question is how the VMS got from Mexico to Peru. It's possible that the Cathars inspired the rise of the Aztec Empire circa 1300 and then the rise of the Inca Empire in 1438. The Cathars were missionaries; they could have made converts among the natives (who copied the deerskin content onto bison parchment) with all records of this (if there were any) destroyed by the Inquisition.