Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Morten, you can't even READ the marginalia. You have repeatedly shown that you are not familiar with the shapes of 15th-century letters.

JP, David has inspired me to respond to your last post which I was going to ignore.

True, I am not a palaeographer nor have I ever pretended to be one. Nonetheless, I resent your efforts to convince others to ignore my essay by insinuating that my transcription of the marginalia is riddled with errors. That is not true. For the vast majority of words that I analyze in my essay, including "oladabas", "portas", "maria", "ubren", and "mich", there is no discrepancy at all between how I transcribe them and how they were transcribed by the great palaeographers of yesteryear, as cited by d'Imperio in her book.

There is only debate in places where d'Imperio's experts don't offer an opinion, such as,



I think the dark x could be overwriting another letter, such as an r, giving a word meaning by or through, but you say the author held his quill in the ink well too long and therefore he really wanted to write pox which, I see, refers to a skin disease of sheep and goats.

Also,



I consider the possibility that the third letter could be a truncated el (l) and you say it is a normal ess (s), giving us gas, a word that means goose. But I will have you know that none of the palaeographic experts cited by d'Imperio thinks it is an ess. She cites "gaf" (that's an f, not an s) and one instance of "ga " (omitting the third letter as undecipherable).

You've threatened to withdraw from this thread on more than one occasion and I wouldn't mind if you do. Indeed, it might be best to let this thread fade away as it seems to be accomplishing little. The environment here is totally hostile to my theories and to most new ideas in general. Historically, interest in occult writings grows mainly in times of conflict or famine, not during times of euphoria like now when everyone is becoming super rich from a booming stock market.

But that situation could change quickly. I think nuclear war and tanking economies will likely result in renewed interest in those ancient prophecies and in the VMS as their vehicle of transmission.