© Gunnar Tómasson 8 January 2016. I. Alexandre Dumas – Les Trois Mousquetaires (Introduction – Opening paragraph) 197081 22989 = Il y a un an à peu près, qu’en faisant à la Bibliothèque royale 19769 = des recherches pour mon histoire de Louis XIV, 25277 = je tombai par hasard sur les Mémoires de […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 6. janúar 2016 I. Upphaf bókar (Formáli Eddu) 75724 24844 = Almáttigr Guð skapaði í upphafi himin ok jörð ok alla þá hluti, 24337 = er þeim fylgja, ok síðast menn tvá, er ættir eru frá komnar, 4148 = Adam ok Evu, 22395 = ok fjölgaðist þeira kynslóð ok dreifðist um heim […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 5 January 2016 I. Edward Oxenford alias William Shakespeare (See “Shakespeare” By Another Name, 4 January 2016) 1027983 II. Ben Jonson: Commemorative Poem (First Folio, 1623) 1529523 11150 = To the memory of my beloved, 5329 = The AVTHOR 10685 = MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 867 = AND 9407 = what he […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 4 January 2016 I. Edward de Vere – Fallen Man (Shakespeares Sonnets, I and II) 532709 # I 19985 = From fairest creatures we desire increase, 18119 = That thereby beauties Rose might neuer die, 16058 = But as the riper should by time decease, 15741 = His tender heire might beare […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 3. janúar 2016 I. Val-freyju stafr deyja, Val-freyju stafr deyja (Njála, 78. k. – M) 33445 = Þeir Skarpheðinn ok Högni váru úti eitt kveld fyrir sunnan haug Gunnars; 20143 = tunglskin var bjart, en stundum dró fyrir. 13016 = Þeim sýndisk haugrinn opinn, 25901 = ok hafði Gunnarr snúizk í […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 2 January 2016 I. Take my Milke for Gall, you murth’ring Ministers (Macbeth, Act I, Sc. v, First Folio) 1506977 18564 = Enter Macbeths Wife alone with a Letter. Lady: 13595 = They met me in the day of successe: 16978 = and I haue learn’d by the perfect’st report, 20101 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 1 January 2016 I. The Shugborough Cipher Mystery¹ 179294 In the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, sits an 18th-Century monument known as the Shepherd’s Monument. The Monument contains a relief, depicting a copy of a Nicolas Poussin painting, and a cipher text that has stumped historians and decoders for hundreds […]