Nostradamus C8 Q76: The cannibal king that bleeds the English during a gentler revolution.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

One anagram above all others sets the tone of this verse since the first line says More of a butcher than a king and an anagram in the third line, Laestrygonians is the name of an ancient race of giant cannibals in Homer's Odyssey.

 There is also an anagram for Sassenach which is a term used by the Gaelic inhabitants of the British Isles to refer to the English inhabitants. So we have as a starting point a story about a tall king who is there to harvest the flesh of the English.

Anagrams that help in giving meaning to this verse include:

1. Calumnies in quin line or anyone elegant entangle gentler pulse
2. Prime euil  imperil any pray for aural carver curbs
3. Sassenach saying of Charles reign Laestrygonians regains terra
4. Prop ciphers re-equips pious preemptions heroics perish as spouse queries uprises

Original Verse in English and French (Benoit Ed.)

More of a butcher than a king in England,
born of obscure rank gains empire by force
Coward without faith or law he bleeds the land
His time approaches so close that I sigh.

Plus Macelin que Roy en Angleterre
Lieu obſcur nay par force aura l'empire
Laſche ſans foy ſans loy ſaignera terre
Son temps s'approche ſi presque ie ſouſpire.

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: <~Anyone rue linq repulser caMe~> <queRy-one Masculine /caluMnies Angel><PluMes lace quin><A gentler yen>

L2: <Say of laeStrygonians (race of cannibals)><any Lie obScure-emperial-uuar> <rate charLeS / heracLeS gainS><foyS Saying re-aLterS era salon chaSe><foyS salon aSynergia (lack of muscle coordination) re-aLter chaSe><aS lyons regainS foys>

L3: <Say of laeStrygonians (race of cannibals)><any Lie obScure-emperial-uuar> <rate charLeS / heracLeS gainS><~foyS Saying salon re-aLter SaSsenach era><foyS salon aSynergia reaLter SaSsenach><aS lyons regainS foys>

L4: <prop pass cipherS><~So prophecies-queries pass us pre-emptionS~><piouS norSe met pass prop cipherS><SpouSe queries heroicS ><saps pre-emptionS perish crop><hoSpice queries><spasms prop cipherS> pointerS / proteinS

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

1: LAESTRGONIANS, CIPHERS, SAYING, PREEMPTIONS, spheric, asynergia,   2: SASSENACH, CALUMNIES, IMPERIL, HOSPICE, masculine, perish,  3: PLUMES,  4: -  5: LINQ, SPASM, clash, lumps,   6: MALICE, ENTANGLE,  7: HEROICS, ANYONE, CLASHES, , curare, scam,   8: CURBS, mauls, 9: SALONS, Chelsea, Salons,   10: CHARLES, REQUIPS,  11: GENTLER, POINTERS, Heracles,   12: EMPERIAL,  13: PIOUS, gentle,   14: UPRISES,  15: QUERIES,  16: CHOSE, CHORES,
17: gains,
18: chopper, elegant, aural,
19: reagent,
20: -
21: -
22: granite, camel,
23: spouse, impel.

Key Ideas:

ciphers, saying, Laestrygonians, preemptions, calumnies, imperil, hospice, Sassenach, perish, repulser, linq, clash, asynergia, spasm, curbs, entangle, anyone, Heracles, heroics, re-equips, Charles, pointers, gentler, uprises, emperial, pious, elegant, aural, reagent, spouse, impel.