[split] Big f116v spillover thread.

[Jorge_Stolfi]

If it's not a meaningful German spell, then why do you see '+' shapes that indicate a medieval charm? And a capital 'N' that in medieval charms stands for the names of people?

Well, it is not a meaningful German spell because it has no meaning in any German dialect, known or imagined.  

I suppose that the person who tried to restore the lost text saw one or two smudges that looked like tall crosses.  They could not be "t"s, which, in the script he was assuming, did not look at all like crosses (see the "multod" for example).  So he must have guessed that the second line was a charm -- and "restored" it accordingly.  But the words that he got just don't make sense, in any language...

All the best, --stolfi