[split] Discussion of f116v interpretations by Anton Alipov

[ThomasCoon]

You can clearly see the "f" in the Latin "facio" in the 7th line, 2nd word, and many Bavarian words are written with this character also.

Yes, but "facio" is Latin (as you noted), and what German words are beginning with "f" there, I couldn't locate them? (The issue is not with the character "f" as such, but with words beginning with it.)

Let me use a text closer to the date of the VMS. The Nibelungenlied was written down around the time period 1200-1250. Here is the first page of Manuscript C, and I pointed out three words with word-initial F:

   

I just checked my Reclam edition (2011, Mittelhochdeutsch / Neuhochdeutsch), and it confirms that the first word is "diu frowe" (die Frau) and the last word is "frumten" (Reclam translates as "vollführten")