[split] Discussion of f116v interpretations by Anton Alipov

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About consistency in glyph shapes: has it been mentioned that both the -e- and the -n in valden look different than those in ubren? The -n could possibly be explained by an end-line flourish. I can't find an explanation for the -e-shape in walden though.

The inconsistency in the "n" chars is not unusual. Sometimes the last "n" will have a flourish, sometimes not.

But the difference in the "e" letters is harder to explain. The second one is unambiguously an "e". The first one might be an "e", they were sometimes written that way when this style of script was common, but if that's a longer upstroke (if there's more of it under that blob), it might be an abbreviation for "er", in which case the word could be "valdern" or "valsern".

Either way, it's fractured (non-native-sounding) sort-of-German. If it were German blended with Norse, one might read it as "choose over".