The Challenge of Analyzing a Dynamic Text

[Jorge_Stolfi]

In short, the two Herbal sections are devastating to the semantic correlation hypothesis. If vocabulary tracked illustration meaning, both Herbal sections should use similar words.

Unless the Author decided to revise his spelling system at some point.  Or decided to write in Northwest Low Central Bavarian instead of North-Central High West Bavarian.  Or he copied the text of each section from a different book, and some of those source books were in Elfdalian, some in Gutnish.  Or ...

All the best, --stolfi