Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Do you have anything useful to say about my theories for decoding the VMS?

If your system is based upon transliterating the marginalia into Spanish, why are you changing the English version to make it more palatable?

The appearance of the word "sel," salt, in the preceding verse (last line of stanza V-34) was taken as a signal to translate "Seline" as Saline (containing salt).'

You haven't addressed any of my comments regarding the ungrammatical (and erroneous) use of Spanish which we went through earlier.

Whatever Spanish you see in my English-language essay is a literal, word for word translation of the original French (visible only in a graphic so perhaps that is what is confusing you) using, wherever possible, Spanish words found in the marginalia otherwise words of the same Latin etymology. The objective was to come as close as possible to the VMS Spanish. Even if I got it only half right in that Rosetta Stone, it could still prove useful to contemporary decoders.

Consequently, I am not responsible for whatever you think is "ungrammatical" as I did not write the original French which often does not itself follow normal French syntax. 

Note that I did not make any changes to my Spanish translation, only to the English translation to deal with complaints presented by you and Paris. Back in those days Selin, or Selim, the Turks, was a major issue, still a threat to Western Europe, and as such it was referred to in many stanzas. In brief, there was very little chance that any printer would allow "Saline" (a silly word in that context and especially so with a capital S) to stand without automatically correcting it Seline. The authors got around this problem by inserting "sel" into the preceding line and a "Salique" nearby.

Spanish is the underlying language of most of the marginalia and for this reason it must be assumed that the underlying VMS text for that prophecy (in the lines indicated by the star tails) is Spanish. I see a plausible German word or two (for example, valsch, meaning false or falsely) but it's mostly Spanish.