Morten St George Theory

[davidjackson]

Morten, my Spanish is very near that of a native speaker. The RAE backs up my translation - at no point did I use Google translate.

I suggest you find a counter-example of "la mar salina" or "por libre urbe" in 16th century Spanish to prove your point.

Furthermore, your translation of 5(35) isn't very accurate from the old French. You have:

By free city of the great Salty sea,
That carries again the stone to the stomach:
English fleet shall come under a drizzle
To take a branch, from the great one: open war.

The Wordsworth edition of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.has it as:

From the fair city of the great crescent sea,
Which still carries the stone in its stomach.
An English fleet will come through the fog,
To seize one branch; war is declared by the great one

Which would impact extensively upon your translation. Spanish, of course, is much closer to French than English so the translation should not go through English.