(28-01-2021, 03:58 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.From You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
I've spent a lot of time looking at the VMS text, four transcripts (one of which is also a concordance), I'm familiar with the different hands and the way they write specific characters, and I find this less difficult than some sections. Here is how I would interpret this in EVA.
The first character is rounded. It's not r. The one before ain is a little harder to be sure, it might be s or r. The last round one might be "a" but I am leaning toward "o" based on looking at so many chars and because I think the line belongs to the descender of the character above. The others are more clear than in many parts of the manuscript. So I think this is one of these possibilities:
s or chy r ain or
s or chy s ain or
s or chy s/r ain ar
If the VMS were only a paragraph or a page, we would be in trouble. But it's 30,000+ tokens. There are enough clear ones to figure out what is going on... I think.