Quote:Gerard Cheshire to Alisa quoted: The author [of the VMS] only describes the medicinal use of the plants, but uses no names, as they didn't have names in 1444, which is why she uses drawings to describe them.
Even the oldest manuscripts, from before the 9th century, sometimes had as many as 20 names listed for a single plant.
If it's a topic he doesn't know, he just makes something up that sounds good to him. He did it in his paper too.
His doctoral research was in belief systems (not linguistics as some people were saying). I guess he feels that if he believes it strongly enough he can convince everyone else.