I’d like to add:
“palsen” is a fairly reliable reading, assuming that the 8 is an “s.”
“Pbrey” is much less reliable because it involves two assumptions, one of which is speculative:
1. the last letter is an "y"
2. “pb” really doesn’t occur at the beginning of a word in German.
There are spellings spanning two syllables, but we don’t have that here.
The assumption that the writer used the two common variants “prey” and “brey” in one word to create alliteration is speculative.
“palsen” is a fairly reliable reading, assuming that the 8 is an “s.”
“Pbrey” is much less reliable because it involves two assumptions, one of which is speculative:
1. the last letter is an "y"
2. “pb” really doesn’t occur at the beginning of a word in German.
There are spellings spanning two syllables, but we don’t have that here.
The assumption that the writer used the two common variants “prey” and “brey” in one word to create alliteration is speculative.