Morten St George Theory

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Your counterclaim is that a scaly animal has been found to exist in central Africa and also in China. Since you have provided no evidence at all that such an animal was known in Europe during the Middle Ages, I view your counterclaim as sheer demagoguery, not as science.


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You seem to have a very selective memory.

I did not make a "counterclaim" in the sense of saying you are wrong and this is right, which is what your wording implies.

I have a LIST (which I have explained to you MANY times, in case you have forgotten) of possible IDs for the scaly animal. It's quite a long list, and it even includes a beaver, an aardvark, and a sheep (all with good reasons, as detailed in my blogs).

So don't talk about this as though I am pitting your idea against mine because I DON'T DO RESEARCH that way. Research is not a black and white endeavor, there are no predetermined signposts to tell you the right road to take, so I create lists of possibilities and then I study each one until I can determine whether there's enough evidence to support it, which is a process that can take many months or years.


The drawings are not good enough to definitely ID quite a few of the VMS animals (which is true of many medieval animal drawings). We can only know what they are by their context (and sometimes even that is not helpful, at least not yet).