3* The MA "illi" indicates the Historian had memorized a word closer to Old Norse. The two MA words must be combined be similar to an Algonquin word.

4* The modern Norwegian name for deer is hjortedyr. The similarity of the words for deer is another strong piece of evidence that the Maalan Aarum was created by people speaking Norse.

5* The modern Norwegian word for also is “ogsà.” This is another piece of evidence that the Maalan Aarum was first spoken by Old Norse people.
The Recorder hung the “g” sound on the end of the deer word. Many English words do end in “g.” Sherwin showed that the “g” is not a part of the deer word, enabling a better translation

6* The Algonquin word means, “to slink,” Algonquins named animals by their actions. The fox slinks though the forest and plains. The Cree and Algonquin (tribe) had words similar to “ewak” for fox.

Somewhere in the memory process the mental image of the fox, an Arctic and forest animal, was replaced by a vision of the buffalo, which was usually named, in common use, by two long words not associated with slinking. But the original word for fox, the slinker, was passed from one Historian’s memory to another Historian’s memory as the word was in the beginning.