Nostradamus C5 Q80: The story of world wide religious wars beyond our time.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015, Mar 2023

The text of this verse once again ties it to the story of the Barren Lady's family and in particular to the story of her youngest son's part in her wars. In reading the text of this verse it is apparent that its tone is different to tothers in this series. This link is made via the mention of two laws. There are several passages in Nostradamus' 1558 Henry Epistle to law(s) but they are confined to the stories of the brothers and appear in the later parts of the Epistle.

C5 Q80 is paired with C5 Q13 because these two verse serve the purpose of defining the boundaries of the religious wars' battle grounds. This current-verse extends the region from Europe to Asia and Mongolia.

This scheme can be seen in the anagrams of the current verse. From them it can be concluded that Nostradamus makes this verse the turning point at which his prophecies-arcana (iſance approchera)  begin broadening (on grande Bi) out in time and space.

Arcana means a source of specialised knowledge which is highly appropriate for covering times beyond the normal understading of persins in either the sixteenth or twenty-first centuries.

 The anagrams mention fartherance ( are et franch) quintiles ( l'eſtiniqu) and Mongolia ( a Logmion).  These terms suggest that the remaining verses will be placed into five equal sections (quiintiles) and that the region Nostradamus covers will expand as far as Mongolia. The five topics include the events several centuries hence when the heathen invasion of Europe will be reversed by people from as far away as Mongolia while the Northern allies and the original invading hordes will come into constant conflict.

C5 Q80
Original Verse in English and French (Benoit Ed.)

Ogmios will approach great Byzantium,
The Barbaric League will be driven out
Of the two laws the heathen one will give way,
Barbarian and Frank in perpetual strife.

Logmion grande Biſance approchera
Chasse ſera la barbarique ligne
Des deux loix l'vne l'eſtinique lachera
Barbare et franche en perpetuelle brigue

Adjacent Anagrams plus Anagrams of highest merit.  ( ~ means full line used)
Selection Order based on letter rarity, word and sequence length plus line completion

L1: <prophecieS-arcana looming danger><Looming danger reproach> <mongoLia echo Broadening paper Scan> <paper grooming choLera><~Looming danger hear ape crop caBinS~> adorning

L2: <arab Change arable liquer> <barbara reSeals Changes><~arab Sees has arable geniC liquer~>

L3: <louix x reacheD equal seed> <rachael Deeds lune quintiles lux> <oil uxed lest aquiline lvnex Searched><Deduxes heraclea quintileS>

L4: <fartherance Burbage libeler><after beguiler bear Bear> <pen repute libeler fartherance> <hence aberrate far> arab enhance

Table listing anagram occurrences (1-23) in Nostradamus' Prophecies

1: prophecies-arcana, broadening, quintiles, leaching, Burbage, Heraclea, aberrate, enhance,
2: fartherance, Mongolia, quintile, aquiline, beguiler, roaming, Lovix, lxvi / xliv,
3: approacher / reapproach, looming, searched, charade, libeler, abides,
4: adorning, inequal, Barbara, Sachsen, sashes,
5: equilin, sentinel, claque, Qabir, header / Rhedae / adhere, Iraq,
6: reproach, reached, adheres / sheared,
7: arched, bend,
8: veinlets, deduxes, goal,
9: Beid,
10: cholera, Ferrante, Al-Gore,
11: liquer,
12: changes, cabins, Girona, arable, bearer,
13: oilx,
14: -
15: Horace, heard,
16: -
17: -
18: chopper, dreads / sadder, eddas,
19: guile, elven,
20: -
21: -
22: Rachel (2x), basin, Iraqu.
23: -

Key Ideas:

prophecies-arcana, broadening, quintiles, enhance, fartherance, Mongolia, Burbage, Heraclea, aberrate, aquiline, beguiler, lxvi, looming, searched, charade, libeler, abides, adorning, Barbara, Sachsen, sashes, Qabir, claque, sentinel, adhere, Iraq, goal, deduxes, Ferrante, veinlets, liquer, changes, cholera, Girona, cabins, heard, sadder, chopper, Horace, dreads, bearer, elven, guile, Iraqu, oils, basin, arable.