© Gunnar Tómasson

25 April 2015.

 I. Two opening Sections

  31771 = Turned from the “eau-forte Par Jacquemart” To the strait head Of Messalina:

26915 = „His true Penelope Was Flaubert,“ And his tool The engraver’s.

25739 = Firmness, Not the full smile, His art, but an art In profile;

29579 = Colourless Pier Francesca, Pisanello lacking the skill To forge Achaia.

34520 = “Qu’est ce quils savent de l’amour, et qu’est ce qu’ils peuvent comprendre?

34393 = S’ils ne comprennent pas la poèsie, s’ils ne sentent pas la musique, qu’est ce

35994 = qu’ils peuvent comprendre de cette passion en comparaison avec laquelle la rose

26005 = est grossière et le parfum des violettes un tonnerre?”

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What do they know of love, and what can they understand? If they do not understand the poèsie, if they do not feel the music, what can they understand of that passion in comparison with which the rose is coarse and the scent of violets thunder?

II. Snorri Sturluson’s Mission

    4177 = Fiat Lux!

Transform…

129308 = Dim Man-Beast/Idiot Actor

…into

7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God’s Image

Mission Accomplished

104431 = Bók þessi heitir Edda.

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The so-called Uppsala Edda manuscript contains the sole extant reference to Snorri Sturluson as author of Edda, with the text thereof written boldly across the top of the first page. The spelling of the text is replete with errors which generally serve two purposes: (1) To signal possible interesting cipher content of the text, and (2) to align the text precisely with the desired Cipher Value.

On a visit to the Icelandic National Library in Reykjavík many years ago, I checked out the library’s photocopy of the manuscript and wrote down the following letter-perfect version of the text:

8542 = Bók þessi heitir Edda.

20156 = Hana hevir saman setta Snorri Sturlo son

15735 = eptir þeim hætti, sem hér er skipat.

10539 = Er fyrst frá ásum ok Ymi

18224 = þar næst skalldskap ok heiti margra hluta.

17723 = Síþaz Hatta tal er Snorri hevir ort

13512 = um Hak Konung ok Skula hertug.

104431

Loose translation: This book is named Edda. It has been put together by Snorri Sturluson in the manner which is here ordered. First is an account of the Aesir and Ymir, thereafter poetry and the names of many things. Last poems which Snorri has composed for King Hakon and Duke Skuli.

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Vacuos exercet in aera morsus.

Ezra Pound prefaced his poem with this Latin phrase (e. Vacuum practices in the air.)

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III. Mission Practiced on Thin Air

244916 = Snorri Sturluson’s Mission

14824 = Vacuos exercet in aera morsus.

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IV. Horace’s (Stratfordian) Monument

  15415 = Exegi monumentum aere perennius
15971 = regalique situ pyramidum altius,

18183 = quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
16667 = possit diruere aut innumerabilis
15808 = annorum series et fuga temporum.
16838 = Non omnis moriar multaque pars mei
17125 = vitabit Libitinam; usque ego postera
15977 = crescam laude recens.  Dum Capitolium
16702 = scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex,
17493 = dicar, qua violens obstrepit Aufidus
17316 = et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium
19190 = regnavit populorum, ex humili potens,
14596 = princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos
15421 = deduxisse modos.  Sume superbiam
15021 = quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica
15259 = lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam.

262982

I have created a monument more lasting than bronze and loftier than the royal pyramids, a monument which neither the biting rain nor the raging North Wind can destroy, nor can the countless years and the passing of the seasons.  I will not entirely die and a great part of me will avoid Libitina, the goddess of Death; I will grow greater and greater in times to come, kept fresh by praise.  So long as the high priest climbs the stairs of the Capitolium, accompanied by the silent Vestal Virgin, I, now powerful but from humble origins, will be said to be the first to have brought Aeolian song to Latin meter where the raging Aufidius roars and where parched Daunus ruled over the country folk.  Embrace my pride, deservedly earned, Muse, and willingly crown me with Apollo’s laurel.

V. Stratfordian Actor – What’s heere?

  19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST

22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST

24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME

20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK YS TOMBE

20150 = FAR MORE THEN COST: SIEH ALL YT HE HATH WRITT

21760 = LEAVES LIVING ART BUT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT

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VI. The Lord and Swinish Stratfordian

(The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, Sc. I, First folio.)

             1 = Monad/The Lord

                Lord

19654 = What’s heere?  One dead? or drunke?  See doth he breath?

2. Huntsman

21131 = He breath’s my Lord.  Were he not warm’d with Ale,

20169 = this were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.

                Lord

21474 = Oh monstrous beast, how like a swine he lyes.

20662 = Grim death, how foule and loathsome is thine image:

20135 = Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.

Lord’s Practice Instruments

2082 = Faith

4000 = Flaming Sword

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VII. Man-Beast/Idiot Actor’s Houre on Stage

(Prelude to vanishing into Thin Air)

                Snorri Sturluson

7 = Hebrew Man of Seventh Day

1000 = Christian Light of the World

259740 = Snorri Sturluson’s  Thin Air Mission

                Idiot Actor

4951 = Shakespeare

                Idiot Actor’s Hour on Stage

2602 = 26 April (Second month of year old-style)

1564 = 1564 A.D. (Idiot’s Baptismal date)

2502 = 25 April

1616 = 1616 A.D. (Idiot’s Burial date)

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VIII. Man-Beast’s Vanishing Act

262982 = Horace’s (Stratfordian) Monument

4000 = Flaming Sword – Placed by “death” …

… to set The Globe on Fire at End of Idiot’s Hour

and transform Idiot Actor into Brave New World, or

7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God’s Image

273982

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm

P.S. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley – Who’s there?

Answer (on this 399^th anniversary of Will Shakspere’s “documented” burial date):

913 = Adam/Pater Familias

7933 = Non sanz droict – Father’s Coat of Arms

1000 = Light of the World

10432 = Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

7000 = Microcosmos

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As in:

17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere – Stratfordian’s Baptismal name

10226 = Will Shakspere, gent – Burial name of same

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