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Magna Carta Sword 1

                                                       

                    Decipherment of the inscription on the River Witham knightly sword

 

 

 

To the readers

 In this unique research I treat a historical cipher. On our way of deciphering we encounter raw sense, feeling, and thought of the cipher composer who lived in old times. Some of those may be hateful for modern people. Besides, my English is nothing to speak of (so firstly I must say to you “Please pardon me for troubling you”); nevertheless you will forget your precious time is going to be spent on your reading this and wondering how the composer made it.                                                                                11/11/2015  gardener

 

 

 

 

We will decipher

 

    +NDXOXGHWDRGHDXORVI+

 

instead of

 

    +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+,

 

which was announced by British Library on 3rd August 2015 as a reading of  inscription on a medieval sword.

 In the released picture of the sword, 6th and 11th letters seem to be mutually upside down of each other. But I think the 6th can also be read as G. In fact, such treatment yields deciphering as follows.

 I have worked within the historical English language only. But the cipher may be multilingual. My deciphering may be imperfect. It would be hasty to think that the deciphering has completed.

 

 18 letters between two crosses. This may be considered as a cipher. Searching for famous phrase with 18 letters in Christianity, we easily find "Yhoshuah ha-Mashiah" (Jesus Christ in Hebrew). For historical reason, we use 24 alphabet (without J and U). So "Yhoshvah ha-Mashiah".

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