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4820 Stephanio: Hereafter struck out: patriæ annales defendenti
perplacet.
4825"26 omnisqve ... jacet mercimonia: Thus MS. (mercimonia
used as fem. sg.).
4829"32 Reverso ... facillimum < Penes me transmissum servare
avtographum constitui, ut, si forte occasio se offerat melior, sit in
promptu, et ne periculosissimi itineris subeundo aleam iterum nav-
fragio pereat. Accedit qvod nondum cum Magnif. Domino Cancel-
lario de eo egerim. Is enim, a qvo pestis hic grassari cepit, apud nos
non fuit, et adhuc in Cimbria commoratur, ubi redierit et de publica-
tione et de mediis sollicite cum eo agam. Aliter factum si velis,
proximis mone.—Chancellor Friis has evidently returned home be-
fore the letter was sent.
492 Svenoni: Sveinn Jonsson (see the note to nos. 132-52), cf.
Worm’s letter to him no. 133 (p. 2448"10).
49® Eddæ avtorem: See p. 4137 and A. J.’s explanation p. 5414 ff.
with note.
49° descriptionem glutinis: See Specimen p. 155.
4910 ea: In WE corrected into eo, which, however, is not neces-
sary as ea may refer to descriptionem.
4912 de balenarum dentibus: See Specimen p. 155. The question
about the unicorn-tooth occupied Worm very much for a long
time after he had discovered that the so-called unicorn-tooth in
reality was the tooth of a narwhale. In the contemporary letter no.
183 (p. 296) to Bishop borlåkur Skulason he mentions the same
question. It appears repeatedly in his correspondence with the Bi-
shop, see letters nos. 184-87, 206, 207, 209, 211, 212. Cf. also Bibi.
Amam. III pp. 47-48.
4914 disputationem: Disp. de corporis sani conservatione, Hafniæ
1638, to which Worm had added a treatise about the unicorn. A. J.
did not, however, receive the book, see p. 564'0’.
4916 Epitaphia: Epitaphs which had been sent to Copenhagen to
be printed, but over whom cannot be determined (cf., however, note
to p. 9014).
23. WE I 326-27. A letter thanking for Lit. Run. (answer to
letter no. 20).
501 Westhovio: Willichius Westhovius (Willich Westhoff, 1577-