19-08-2026, 05:02 PM
First of all, I’ll mention the following assumptions for this theory, as I didn’t pay attention to them last time:
1). The problem with the word “palden” is that there is no d in the third line, so we make the assumption that either d = s in the form of a figure‑eight, or this word was added by the author.
2). The problem with ol is that, in theory, it should yield p, but in the excerpt corresponding to portad, it is not present. There is only the letter l at the beginning. It can be assumed that d removes ol, leaving l (this may explain the abundance of words like lchedy in Currier B). But I think I’ll pass...
We can continue comparing the strings, and this time I’ll focus on the third line.
First, let’s try to address the discrepancy in the lengths of the excerpts:
pbrey so nim gaf mich
olkeechy or char cheeol s or or aiin otam
Let’s exclude the words that have already been “decoded”:
so nim gaf
or s or or aiin otam
Cheeol is gone because it might be palsen.
There is still a difference, and the text You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. contains nothing that could correspond to a triple or (s) or or. But what if everything that comes after s is a new line, not related to so nim gaf mich? Of course, this could be plausible, given that s often appears as the first letter of a line. If there was still room for a new line of ciphertext, the scribe could simply put s and continue writing.
Then it will be...
so nim gaf
or
...
Okay, let’s put everything back the way it was before.
so nim gaf
or s or or aiin otam
According to my assumption, some part of aiin may include the letter a.
But it’s still hard to make out the letters…
At the end of f116v, there is a symbol that looks like an o. If it’s an o, it could correspond to s or the second or.
Perhaps the author deciphered the entire line, tried to assemble words from the letters, and came up with so nim gaf mich, as if suggesting that “gaf mich” means goat’s milk, partly due to “so nim,” but he couldn’t assemble the remaining set of letters into any meaningful word.
I can imagine that after the author asked the scribe to decipher what was written and saw that he hadn’t managed to do it and ended up with something incomprehensible, he gave up and simply decided to sell the manuscript. Well, or the author himself forgot the spell, decided to decipher it, failed, and also gave up.
1). The problem with the word “palden” is that there is no d in the third line, so we make the assumption that either d = s in the form of a figure‑eight, or this word was added by the author.
2). The problem with ol is that, in theory, it should yield p, but in the excerpt corresponding to portad, it is not present. There is only the letter l at the beginning. It can be assumed that d removes ol, leaving l (this may explain the abundance of words like lchedy in Currier B). But I think I’ll pass...
We can continue comparing the strings, and this time I’ll focus on the third line.
First, let’s try to address the discrepancy in the lengths of the excerpts:
pbrey so nim gaf mich
olkeechy or char cheeol s or or aiin otam
Let’s exclude the words that have already been “decoded”:
so nim gaf
or s or or aiin otam
Cheeol is gone because it might be palsen.
There is still a difference, and the text You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. contains nothing that could correspond to a triple or (s) or or. But what if everything that comes after s is a new line, not related to so nim gaf mich? Of course, this could be plausible, given that s often appears as the first letter of a line. If there was still room for a new line of ciphertext, the scribe could simply put s and continue writing.
Then it will be...
so nim gaf
or
...
Okay, let’s put everything back the way it was before.
so nim gaf
or s or or aiin otam
According to my assumption, some part of aiin may include the letter a.
But it’s still hard to make out the letters…
At the end of f116v, there is a symbol that looks like an o. If it’s an o, it could correspond to s or the second or.
Perhaps the author deciphered the entire line, tried to assemble words from the letters, and came up with so nim gaf mich, as if suggesting that “gaf mich” means goat’s milk, partly due to “so nim,” but he couldn’t assemble the remaining set of letters into any meaningful word.
I can imagine that after the author asked the scribe to decipher what was written and saw that he hadn’t managed to do it and ended up with something incomprehensible, he gave up and simply decided to sell the manuscript. Well, or the author himself forgot the spell, decided to decipher it, failed, and also gave up.