I found the previous discussion on 'gas - gahes' here and on the following page:
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I agree the word order gas - mich is a bit of a problem, one would expect it the other way round. but it might be a poetic structure. I also have no idea how long this term was used but to me the language in the examples appears far more ancient than the marginalia - as far as they are intelligible (barely at all). In the VM marginalia, also would like to point out the horizontal line in 'g' crossing through the 'a' and the vertical line crossing through the 's'. Whatever that means, if anything at all. But many of the marginalia letters are extremely odd.
Still a good find. It would be helpful to look at the actual text passages to see how exactly this 'gas' in the examples was written. As Rene asked - with a caret / abbreviation mark or without?
All in all I'm neither fully convinced by the 'goat milk' nor the 'wholly/quickly me' solution and I'm increasingly unsure if there's any deeper meaning in those marginalia at all. But we're talking about the VM after all. Few things are certain.
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And on Koen's blog
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I agree the word order gas - mich is a bit of a problem, one would expect it the other way round. but it might be a poetic structure. I also have no idea how long this term was used but to me the language in the examples appears far more ancient than the marginalia - as far as they are intelligible (barely at all). In the VM marginalia, also would like to point out the horizontal line in 'g' crossing through the 'a' and the vertical line crossing through the 's'. Whatever that means, if anything at all. But many of the marginalia letters are extremely odd.
Still a good find. It would be helpful to look at the actual text passages to see how exactly this 'gas' in the examples was written. As Rene asked - with a caret / abbreviation mark or without?
All in all I'm neither fully convinced by the 'goat milk' nor the 'wholly/quickly me' solution and I'm increasingly unsure if there's any deeper meaning in those marginalia at all. But we're talking about the VM after all. Few things are certain.