[Other] James Robert Child passed away

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Besides the website there is also a paper from 2002 ( revised version ) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Child makes clear in it:

It is not a cipher, and not an artificial language, as has also been suggested. The distribution of vowel and consonant letters, some of which are surely Latin letters, makes a cipher improbable.

Instead he said that the manuscript was written in a "hitherto unknown North Germanic dialect". That's what we see on the website.