MENALTING deciphered

MENALTING decipherment
Maalan Aarum 4.4

ORIGINAL TRANSLATION

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They having died, 

the hunters, 

about to depart,

 met together

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ORIGINAL SOUNDS

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Angomelchik

 elowichik 

elmusichik 

menalting
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.LENAPE WORDS

ango mechat
ei-ow chekee
ei-(ow) mosogquet(eau)
mina alting

OLD NORSE WORDS

engi mikill
eiga e sterkr
eiga no' suuga taa
minni althoeng

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.NORSE to ENGLISH

Not many
hunters
put together
a small meeting

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PARAPHRASE

A few Hunters put together a small meeting.
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COMMENTS:
This stanza was composed by Tally Maker in South Dakota about AD 1375, 30 years after the Norse Catholic-Lenape arrived at James Bay.  The pictograph shows a "round table" meeting with the locals, the triangle, included.  This meeting may have been the first government by counsel in north America.
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Deciphered by: Craig Judge, Kean University.
        Verified by: Myron Paine, PH. D,
         Administrator: Frank Esposito, Kean University.
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DETAILS
Sounds = AN       GO           
Lenape  =  ANGO

ANGV4012

Old Norse = ENGI
Norse/English = NOT

Sounds = MEL      CHIK
Lenape =  MECHAT

MECV6063a

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Old Norse = MIKILL Sherwin may have chosen the wrong word?
Norse/English = MANY

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Sounds =  E LO WI CHIK         
Lenape  =   EI-OW  1

ElOV1046

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Old Norse =    EI GA   1
Norse/English =  TO HAVE
1.  The Monrovians recorded an "l" sound.  They may have heard "aya" and wrote the "l" instead of "i" sound.
       
Sounds =     I CHIK
                       
Lenape  =    E CHEKEE

E  V1043

CHEV5024

Old Norse =          E STERKR
Norse/English =     VIOLENT (or Violating)*
*  The "e" syllable is supposed to modify verbs.  In this case the continuing syllable "e" appears to apply to an adjective meaning "violent."  Perhaps "checkee" originally meant "to violate," as in "he has to continually violate."  

This phrase would have been a good paraphrase for a hunter.  In any case the Lenape Historian must have known that  "eiga e sterkr" was a paraphrase for hunter, because the Lenape Historian must have told the Monrovia translators that the word meant "hunters" in the Mighty Hunter stanza.


Sounds =    EL MUS I CHIK 
Lenape  =    EI-OW  (SEE ABOVE) &
                 MO SOG QUEHT EAU  1

MOSV1109

NOTES  1. The small print indicates syllables the Moravians may have missed.
                2. "o" is often interchanged with "u."
                3.  The Moravians heard "g q" as "ch" and the "taa" as "k."  They may have been familiar with the syllable "chik"
                      but not the Lenape word "Mosogquehteau."  So they missed some syllables.

NORSE = NO' SUUGA TAA
NORSE/ENGLISH = PUTS TOGETHER

Sounds = MEN
Lenape =  MINA

MINV2082

NORSE  = MINNI

NORSE/ENGLISH = SMALL

SOUNDS =  ALTING
LENAPE =   AL TING (below)

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ALGV1009

TRAV5195

NORSE = THROENG

NORSE/ENGLISH = THRONG, CROWD
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VERIFICATION 

ORIGINAL WORDS

DROTTKVAETT FORMAT

An go mel chik e low
I chik el mus  I chik

Men al ting

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Three lines

Allit = 2/3

Rhyme = 2/3

Total 4/6 = 66% = very low.

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LENAPE WORDS

Drottkvaett

An go me chat ei-ow

 chek Ee Ei-ow mo sog

quet eau min A Al thoeng

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Three lines

Allit = 2/3

Rhyme = 0/3

Todal 2/6 = 33% = very low.

[would have been 66% if "ow" sound was same as "o"]

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OLD NORSE WORDS

Drottkvaett

En Gi mi kill Ei Ga

E sterkr Ei ga no' suu 

Ga taa min ni al ting

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Three lines

Allit = 4 or 5/3
[if the "G" in "Ga" is considered a position alliteration.]

Rhyme = 3/3

Todal 7/6 = 117% = very high.

With Old Norse words this stanza appears full validated by the Drottkvaett format.

The Drottkvaett format is difficult to recognize with the Lenape sounds, primarily because the "E" and "G" alliterations were obscured by changes in sounds as the time passed in Lenape land.

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