22-07-2026, 06:22 AM
Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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...
Personally, i believe there is meaning, it's just that the handwriting is so sloppy we can't read any of it besides a few words here and there, we see the capital 'N' which i pointed out along with the '+' shapes, but we also see the phrase 'ſo nim' meaning 'then take', being one of the most common phrases in medieval charms.