The secret to Shakespeare’s poetry may be hidden in a lake in Canada, code breaker Petter Amundsen and director Jørgen Friberg believe.

For more than ten years, director Jørgen Friberg has been searching for what he calls Shakespeare’s hidden truth, which has also become a documentary film.

On Thursday, he will travel to Canada to try to solve the enigma of Shakespeare in the company of Norwegian decipherer Petter Amundsen, already stationed in the country.

Hidden treasure map

Organist and cryptologist Amundsen discovered, through careful decoding, a sort of treasure map hidden in the first collection of Shakespeare’s plays, written in the 17th century.

The treasure map leads to what they think is an artificial lake on Oak Island.

– The History Channel is now there, with lots of equipment and researchers to find the answer to this riddle, director Jørgen Friberg told NRK.

He directed the documentary Shakespeare’s Hidden Truth, which ends on the legendary Canadian pond. Since then, Friberg and cryptologist Petter Amundsen have worked hard to obtain the necessary permission and money to drain the lake.

– One of the islanders came down in a diving suit and said there were tree stumps a meter below the surface. The theory then becomes that this dam was engineered, which is a very effective way of hiding things. If so, it’s great engineering, Amundsen told NRK.no during his latest visit to Canada.

Petter Amundsen suspects that draining the dam will reveal a cavity built there by a secret brotherhood.

– What will cause a sensation is if it turns out that the pond is artificial

. Then there will be a whole bunch of new questions, director Jørgen Friberg tells NRK.

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– It will be very exciting

Petter Amundsen is already in Canada with the History Channel. Ten years ago, he began to become interested in the writings of Shakespeare. One theory was that it was the philosopher Francis Bacon who wrote the literary works of William Shakespeare.

– The only thing I can say is that it will be very exciting, Amundsen said on the phone from Oak Island.

The History Channel gave director Friberg and codebreaker Amundsen a glimpse into what’s happening in Canada’s wetlands.

• See “The Hidden Truth of Shakespeare” here

– Reduces Shakespeare to a rebus

Many strongly criticize Petter Amundsen’s theories. One of the critics is literary critic and Dagbladet commentator Inger Merete Hobbelstad.

– These are some of the richest dramas in world literature, and it makes little sense to me to try to reduce them to a rebus, to a conspiracy, and thus attribute them to another person. But unfortunately, I don’t think these theories will disappear, Hobbelstad tells NRK.