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(MHN, p. 14, lines 22-24)
Jussit ergo eis nunciare Olavo obitum
suum, totam terram ejus præstolari
adventum, properare eum debere, ne
quid novi interveniret.
(MHN, p. 14, lines 10-13)
. .., postremo vocavit ad se avuncu-
los scilicet Olavi, fratres videlicet
matris ejus Astrithar, lostein et
Karlshofoth, interminatusque est eis
mortern, nisi jussis obedirent.
(MHN, p. 18, lines 6-8)
...; quem tamen postea servum
caput domipi sui afferentem pro
præmio et scelere in dominum perpe-
trato rex laqueo necari jussit.
(AM 310,4 , p. 63)
hann callar hann til sin ajjinginu oc
segir at hann uill senda hann i Gar6a
austr me5 j^eim orendum ut luinn
scal segia andlat jarlsins oc J)at me6
at landit liggi nu hofjungialaust oc
nu se (jat allra vili at unna Olafi T. s.
konungdoms.
(AM 310,4 , pp. 64-65)
jdrlinn s. at Jaeir munu velia ser uerra
cost oc ugirnilegra lut ef Jteir neita
j)essum pui at pit scolut sæta skiotum
dauda ej pit gerit eigi sem ec vil.
(AM 310,4 , p. 83)
Oc er Olafr kendi jjetta vera hafu6
Hakonar j. J?a reiddiz hann Jjræl-
inum oc bad hann up festa oc sagpi
hann haja scylldu maclig laun Jirir sin
drottins suik.
There is a sufficient degree of verbal similarity, involving in two cases
special phrasing (modis omnibus intendit animum — hugsar hann a marga
uega and ihugar hann amargar lundir; pro præmio et scelere in dominum
perpetrato = maclig laun Jirir sin drottins suik), to assure that the
relationship between Theodoricus and Oddr is scribal rather than oral.
The easiest assumption is that Oddr had access to Theodoricus’ book
and this is the view argued by Bjarni Abalbjarnarson.2 However, the
situation is considerably complicated by the faet that there are
independent correspondences between Theodoricus and Snorri not
shared with Oddr. These correspondences are boxed in my summary and
include items 1, 7, and 8 in the fifteen-point abstract above:
2 Om de norske kongers sagaer, Skrifter utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i
Oslo, II, Hist.-Filos. Klasse, 1936, no. 4 (Oslo, 1937), pp. 69-75.