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and doubtful …),49 which are in the Icelandic rendered as: “Fogr ero ydr
firirheit en oss þo ny ok uheyrd fyrr” (Fair are your promises but to us
they are new and previously unheard of).50 Augustine’s death is related in
book II, chapter 3 of Bede’s Historia and again the verbal agreements are
considerable:
49 Bede, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, eds. Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B.
Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), 74–75. The English translations are by Colgrave.
50 Stowe MS 980, 40r5.
Stowe MS 980 / AM
764 4to
Text Parallel Old Norse-Icelandic text(s)
980, 40r1–3 Prologue –
980, 40r3–9 St Augustine –
980, 40r9–40v23 St Dunstan cf. Dunstanus saga, ed. Fell,
14.8–15.1, 15.4–17, 15.24–26,
17.26–18.10, 19.18–20.5, 20.10–17,
22.24–23.4, 23.10–13
980, 40v24–37 Lanfranc cf. Mariu saga, ed. Unger, 179.7–
16/472.15–24, and Dunstanus saga,
ed. Fell, 29.12–30.6
980, 40v38–41r34 St Anselm cf. Mariu saga, ed. Unger, 469.13–
472.26/175.11–179.18
980, 41r35–41v9 St Edmund
of Abingdon
cf. Mariu saga, ed. Unger, 727.22–
728.20
980, 41v10–13 Stephen Langton –
980, 41v14–40
764, 36r1–5
St Cuthbert cf. Leifar fornra kristinna frœða
íslenzkra, ed. Þorvaldur Bjarnarson,
168.5–21
764, 36r6–7 St Bede cf. Mariu saga, ed. Unger, 650.32–
652.4
764, 36r14–37r – (originally left blank, probably
intended for more tales involving
English clergymen and/or kings)
764, 37v1–14 St Edward the
Confessor
cf. Játvarðar saga ins helga, eds.
Rafn & Jón Sigurðsson, 14.12–
16.10
Table 2: Overview of the texts in Anecdotes.