Davidsch,
You asked a question ("Yes, so my question to you all: why did the author choose to display different versions of a ring?"), and I gave you my answer, which is nothing more than my view.
Was it a sarcastic/rhetorical question? Did you not really want an answer? It's hard to tell, because now you seem annoyed that I have given my honest answer. I try to stay away from sarcasm in writing because it doesn't translate well.
Your comments on the thread about "umbrellas" have nothing to do with the fact that in the oyster illustration we see the same thing (an oyster) being depicted in two different ways, not just in the same MS, but side by side on the same page.
Please re-read my comment above: I referred to that example because you claimed you don't understand why an object would be depicted in two different ways: I did this to show you a case where this happens. But perhaps that was sarcasm as well, and maybe you didn't really want a response.
I am not hell-bent on these objects being rings: to me they look like rings, and they definitely look more like rings than wreaths. Apparently Glen Claston once suggested they could be pessaries. Why not, but I've not yet seen an illustration of a pessary that looks like that.
I'm open to whatever you or anyone else might suggest for these objects as well: just show me a picture of something that actually looks more like these objects than a ring.
ETA: I just went to your blog, where you have a post suggesting this could be Freya's amulet. Yet in one of your comments above, you state that "the other 3 pictures with that thing are not a ring nor an amulet" . And now I'm completely confused about how to understand when you are being sarcastic or not, and what you really mean.
You asked a question ("Yes, so my question to you all: why did the author choose to display different versions of a ring?"), and I gave you my answer, which is nothing more than my view.
Was it a sarcastic/rhetorical question? Did you not really want an answer? It's hard to tell, because now you seem annoyed that I have given my honest answer. I try to stay away from sarcasm in writing because it doesn't translate well.
Your comments on the thread about "umbrellas" have nothing to do with the fact that in the oyster illustration we see the same thing (an oyster) being depicted in two different ways, not just in the same MS, but side by side on the same page.
Please re-read my comment above: I referred to that example because you claimed you don't understand why an object would be depicted in two different ways: I did this to show you a case where this happens. But perhaps that was sarcasm as well, and maybe you didn't really want a response.
I am not hell-bent on these objects being rings: to me they look like rings, and they definitely look more like rings than wreaths. Apparently Glen Claston once suggested they could be pessaries. Why not, but I've not yet seen an illustration of a pessary that looks like that.
I'm open to whatever you or anyone else might suggest for these objects as well: just show me a picture of something that actually looks more like these objects than a ring.
ETA: I just went to your blog, where you have a post suggesting this could be Freya's amulet. Yet in one of your comments above, you state that "the other 3 pictures with that thing are not a ring nor an amulet" . And now I'm completely confused about how to understand when you are being sarcastic or not, and what you really mean.