Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Morten, the manuscript is full of ink spills (places where the letters filled in where there was too much ink). It's HARD to write with a quill, especially on parchment, even if you've done it for quite a while.

JP, I was only referring to the marginalia (circa 1600) and not to the main body of text (circa 1420). I wasn't kidding about a lot of preparation going into every stroke of the quill. In every way the marginalia is a cryptic masterpiece: Spanish words made to look like German words, real German words to make us think those Spanish words are German words, and an individual letter made to look like the result of an ink spill but not really so. What we see in the marginalia today is almost certainly exactly what they wanted us to see. 

Surely there was no motive for creating the marginalia other than to help someone undertake a new decoding of the VMS, but not someone of their epoch, someone of the distant future who might be able to prevent the predicted annihilation (so they believed) of mankind. The devious nature of the marginalia can therefore be explained as an effort to bypass the Inquisition for a few centuries.

In the meantime, the marginalia can only be properly understood by someone who is familiar with the Nostradamus prophecies, which probably explains why I was able to make a little progress on it. Thus, while most scholars likely have no idea what the marginalia "untpfer" means, it only took me a few minutes to expand it into unt(er) Pfer(d) and see a seahorse carrying a stone across the great saline sea.