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INTRODUCTION
Fasti, 1643, pp. 174-81. AJ also sent, probably at the same time,
a variety of information on the Icelandic calendar, from which
Worm introduces some facts into the same work (pp. 4—5, 47,
170-1). In 1629 AJ sent Worm an account of Icelandic runes,
some parts of which were printed by Worm in Literatura (see
Bibi. Arnam. VII, note to 1615), where Crymogæa is also fre-
quently cited. In Worm’s great runological work, Danicorum
monumentorum libri sex (1643), he cites Crymogæa on several
occasions also and prints in addition a more detailed interpreta-
tion of a runic inscription which AJ had sent him by letter (Bibi.
Arnam. VII 20-21 = Monumenta 216-8). Again, in Addita-
menta ad Monumenta Danica (1650), Worm makes one or two
references to notes AJ had sent him after receiving a copy of the
original work from Worm (Additamenta 2, 37). Finally, in his
edition of P. Claussøn’s translation of kings’ sagas, Worm used
both Supplementum and Crymogæa in the chronological survey
he supplied at the end of the book, see below p. 190.
Worm may have been chiefly interested in runes, but the heart
of the matter for St. J. Stephanius lay in the historica1 sources.
As was mentioned above (p. 38), he had, already before com-
pleting his studies abroad, reprinted the first book of Crymogæa
in his work, De regno Daniæ et Norvegiæ . . . tractatus varii,
Lugd. Bat. 1629 (first edn. pp. 356-500; second edn. pp. 299-
437). At this time Stephanius had not been in touch with AJ,
who justly complains of having had no opportunity to correct the
printing errors of the original edition before its re-publication
(see Bibi. Arnam. VII 2213-15). On Stephanius’s return to Den-
mark he entered into direct correspondence with AJ, and he con-
tinued to maintain the connection indirectly by following with
close interest the course of Worm’s correspondence with AJ and
other Icelanders. Stephanius had then already begun the pre-
paration of his Saxo-edition and was energetically collecting all
kinds of information on northern antiquities for his commentary.
Some material came to him from AJ, though the information
he obtained from other Icelanders was also of considerable im-
portance1. Stephanius was however especially zealous in urging
1 On Stephanius’s use of Icelandic sources, see Landsbokasafn Islands, Årbok
1946-7, pp. 104-14.