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expert in this field as the latter is charged with sorcery. Sends al-
phabets of secret writings. Sends his portrait.
2204 responsum: See p. 21916.
2208 Elapsa hyeme: This winter was called “jokulvetur”, see
SkarSsårannåll (Annålar I p. 232) under the year 1630.
22015 terræ motus: See I>orv. Thoroddsen: Landskjålftar å Is-
landi, 1899-1905, pp. 28-29.
2 2 o23 unus peritissimus: A reference to Jon GuSmundsson, called
“the leamed”, see p. 22315. Cf. the note to p. 11816.—As Påll E.
Olason has pointed out (Mom. IV 334, cf. 269) Jon GuSmundsson
was not formally charged at the Althing of 1630, but possibly his
case has been discussed. He was not indicted till the following year
by the bailiff at BessastaSir and sentenced to exile. The competence
of the tribunal and the validity of the judgment were, however, very
doubtful, cf. PEOl. Mom. IV 334 ff. Jån GuSmundsson was, how-
ever, not sent out of the country, but kept hidden for some time
until in 1635 he of his own free will left for Copenhagen to have
his case resumed, in which he also succeeded, but with the result
only that the Althing in 1637 confirmed the previous judgment.
With the assistance of various patrons (among whom was Bishop
Brynjolfur) he nevertheless at length received permission to stay in
the eastem part of Iceland.
2213 meam: Probably executed by his son Benedikt, who in
1638 sent Worm a portrait of his father, see p. 1023 with note.
22i9-2 2 2 22. The table with the secret writings and the following
explanation is not found in manuscript; it has no doubt been written
on a special leaf which probably also bore the address. The
table is here reproduced after WE I 360, 2nd ed. When the
cliché was made the first edition was not available owing to the war.
The table is not printed with the same blocks in the two editions,
but the difference is extremely small, and none of them can be sup-
posed to reproduce the original exactly.
2224 Øfugletur: Øfugleletur WE.
2223"9 Alphabets nos. 2-4 are formed by a simple displacement
of the letters. No. 5 M. G. again reproduces on p. 22218'21 in a more
correct form (in the table c stands for both e and k, while in the
latter c stands for e, and h for k). This secret writing is in Jon
Olafssons’ Runologia (AM 413 fol. p. 165) called iraletur, and it is