Nostradamus C3 Q21: The corporate craftsmen who seek to benefit from the Earth's distress.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

Allusion is a major technique employed by Nostradamus for it allows a broad scene of the future to be created from a past tale that is already well-understood.

In this verse there are two anagrammatic allusions the first of which comes from Norse mythology and the second from a historical entry Esclarmonde (rs de l'amecon), a person prominent in Aquitaine (Southern France) in the 13th century. The Nordic allusion comes through Hreidmarr (r mer Hadri) and an adjacent pair for hoarded emeralds (dra deho - rs de l'ame). These plus the wordings of the text show that the names are more probably a product of intent than chance.

# Hreidmarr - Norse mythology -the avaricious king of  Dwarves - master craftsman, who captured three gods with his unbreakable chains.  His house was clad with gold and glittering gems.