Rotating decoration on gallows f42v

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For the second example, what are those ain aiin aiiin at the end of lines? They seem not to have meanings, just some placeholders.

There are many ideas for what they might be, mostly based on the fact that they are so frequent (e.g., they are grammatical "articles", or conjunctions such as "and", etc.).


I have a list of ideas, one of which is that they resemble Roman numerals (which has apparently been noticed by others long before I knew about the VMS but my interpretation of the shapes is a little different from theirs—same idea, though).

We probably need a separate thread for this (maybe there is one).