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S U M M A R Y
Keywords: annals, post-Reformation sagas, rímur, Hamlet, Saxo Grammaticus,
representations of the East, Ottomans, Tamburlaine
Timur was a renowned Central Asian conqueror who fascinated Early Modern
writers, and this article takes up the question of the source of the description of
him found in Oddverjaannáll. Robert Cook, in an article from 1985, suggested
several possible candidates. These are analysed and a new candidate is proposed,
that being Sebastian Franck’s Chronica, Zeitbuch und Geschichtsbibell (1531).
Following this, an example is given of how such historiographical material came to
be used in saga- and rímur-literature of the seventeenth century, namely in Ambáles
saga and Ambáles rímur. These works adapt the well-known story of Hamlet, but
TIMUR, ‘THE WRATH OF GODʼ