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Bottom of 66r reads like a captcha in Norwegian
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(01-09-2016, 02:35 AM)stellar wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I believe everyone here will find this very interesting.  The picture at the bottom of folio 66r shows a bloated woman on her back.  I believe the text that is not in voynich, but straight Norwegian reads, "Jen a great deal of Greed".

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If you're familiar with German, the second word is fairly clearly old German mus (with a B-shaped terminal-"s" that was common in 15th-century German manuscripts).

I also believe the original third word was "mel" as the ink for the "m" (under the overwritten letter) matches the colors of the following letters better than the ink of the overwritten part, which is a tiny bit darker. The ell is quite clearly written in the same Gothic cursive style as the marginalia on the last page and spacing- and shape-wise could possibly be the same hand. Mel was a common ingredient of many medieval potions and salves and means the same thing in several languages (mel, melle, etc.)
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RE: Bottom of 66r reads like a captcha in Norwegian - by -JKP- - 01-09-2016, 04:33 AM

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