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(see I 1834). See Th. Thoroddsen, Die Geschichte der isl. Vul-
kane, 1925, pp. 124-5.
1831 å Possidoneo: Cf. Strabo VI 277.
1833 Plinius: NH II 82 (193), not in ch. 20.
1835 å Pontano: See Joan. Jovianus Pontanus, Carmina I—II,
Basileæ 1531, I 264 (Meteororum lib.; De terræ motu).
191 aditum: Thus in the text cited above.
1914 secundum Plinium : NH II 110 (236).
jg22-27 £a;ra e(-c . From Hieronymus Cardanus, De subtili-
tate, lib. II (p. 82 in edn. Basileæ 1560). Caira is an error for
Gaira, 5000 for 50000.
1929 secundum Munsterum: P. 1153.
1931 Benzone: Hieronimi Benzonis Novæ novi orbis Historiæ,
Genevæ 1578, pp. 425—6.
2o17-18 The dates given for eruptions of Hekla come from
Gottskalksannall, but with two variants: the second eruption in
the annals is assigned to 1158 (as also all other annals except
Flateyjarannall, which has 1157); no eruption in 1362 is re-
ported in any other source, but Gottskalksannall at this point
speaks of eruptions at six places in Iceland without giving further
details. None of these eruptions is mentioned in Flateyjarannall.
AJ must have concluded from Gottskalksannall that Hekla was
also active in 1362. The date 1157 must on the other hånd be a
simple error on his part. Most annals other than Gottskålks-
annåll also mention a Hekla-eruption in 1206 (1204) ; that this
does not appear in AJ’s list shows that Gottskalksannall must
have been his source.
2019 1558: Hekla is not known to have erupted in this year,
but there was an eruption in the vicinity of the volcano in 1554,
and it is certainly this outbreak which AJ means, see Th. Thor-
oddsen, Die Geschichte der isl. Vulkane, p. 152. The eruption
which Thoroddsen (following Jon Espolm, Islands Arbækur V,
1826, p. 27) assigns to 1578 can certainly never have taken place.
It is not mentioned by AJ, nor is it found in Qualiscunque de-
scriptio Islandiæ (see p. 11 of that work), nor is it given in Gisli
Oddsson’s Annalium farrago and De mirabilibus Islandiæ (see
Islandica X) or in Gottskalksannall. The last-named work re-
ports an earthquake in 1577, and the same entry, practically