Nostradamus C2 Q74: A new species fights man for their place in the universe.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

This and the previous two verses are united by anagram references to birds such as penguin in C2 Q72, oyster birds in C2 Q73 and an eagle in this verse.

The eagle in this verse is a metaphor for an airborn spy and this word is found as an anagram pair in the second line saying spy reseen ( s Py - renees).

There is another cluster of metaphor-forming anagrams which say Norse Jotun wakes ( ont ju - ſques au - Roſne) and part of its strength comes from the Jotun being mythological frost-giants in the Norse tales called the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda.

Their inclusion in this prophecy fits to the story line found in much of Nostradamus work, whereby two different species of man, an old and a new variant, must come to grips with the emergence of the new.

The foregoing conclusions are enhanced by the imagery of three crowns in the preceding verse (C2 Q73) as these crowns used as symbols in Denmark and Sweden can represent the three original Nordic races. The import of this allusion is that it implies the near future evolution of humankind may see a new species competing with us for dominance of the Earth.