09-07-2018, 03:22 PM
I'm always coming back to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and trying to look at it in different ways.
One of the ideas I had a while ago is that maybe that strange "palsen pbren" is a name.
If those are letter "p" with the stems expunged (they look much more like the tops of "p" than medieval "v"), then it's possible there's a stroke through one (or both). If there were a stroke through the second one (making it "per" rather than "p"), then it would come out like a name (Palsen Perbren) or more simply Palsen Pebren. There is also a place-name of Pilsen in Germany, yes, the Pilsen beer town, (which I think I discovered was sometimes spelled Plsen, without the "i", in the manner of eastern European languages, in the middle ages).
I also wondered if those "p" tops might be pronounced as in Old English as "th" or "w".
Just some ideas. Since palsen/valsen pbren/vbren doesn't resolve easily into words, but does sound like a name (northern German, Saxon, or Scandinavian), maybe there's another way of interpreting it.
One of the ideas I had a while ago is that maybe that strange "palsen pbren" is a name.
If those are letter "p" with the stems expunged (they look much more like the tops of "p" than medieval "v"), then it's possible there's a stroke through one (or both). If there were a stroke through the second one (making it "per" rather than "p"), then it would come out like a name (Palsen Perbren) or more simply Palsen Pebren. There is also a place-name of Pilsen in Germany, yes, the Pilsen beer town, (which I think I discovered was sometimes spelled Plsen, without the "i", in the manner of eastern European languages, in the middle ages).
I also wondered if those "p" tops might be pronounced as in Old English as "th" or "w".
Just some ideas. Since palsen/valsen pbren/vbren doesn't resolve easily into words, but does sound like a name (northern German, Saxon, or Scandinavian), maybe there's another way of interpreting it.