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There is no mention in 1595 of astronomical matter written on one of
the two tablets. It is interesting, then, that this detail appears in the
Odda-Annålar in 11153:
ord og bok stafe håfum wær aff Seth og Adam, peir smijdudu tuo spiolld edur
brijkur a huåriar peir ritudu gudz ord og spådoma, enn å adra ritudu peir
astronomiam edur himin tungla gang, med peim tueimur toblum teyknudu
peir eirnenn ad heimurinn munde med tuennum hætte forganga, med watne
og elide. (f. 95r)
Verbal similarities in both directions indicate that the passage in the
Icelandic Carion is a blend of 1595 and Odda-Annålar.
The next detail in the Icelandic Carion which does not come from
1595 occurs in a catalog of Egyptian kings:
Amasis hann ryktte 44. år hiå honum var Joseph og riede hannz drauma (f.
5r)
The corresponding passage in the Danish reads:
Amasis, hånd regerede det Egiptiske Rige 44. Aar. Hans tid falder ind i
begyndelsen paa det Persiske Rige. (f. 16v)
Nowhere in 1595 is Joseph connected with this king (who is never
referred to except as “Pharaoh” in the Bible), but again the Odda-
Annålar provides the source:
Anno mundi 2216. Var Joseph sonur Jacobz selldur j Egiffta land, på rijktte
Amases ad widur nefne Pharao. Anno mundi 2230 wt pijdde Joseph drauma
Pharaonis, og vard herra yfer Egipto, (f. 98r)
It begins to appear that in spite of his claim not to duplicate material
which is in the Odda-Annålar, the Icelandic translator of Carion did
occasionally borrow from that source. This is not surprising since he
must have worked with that text in front of him as a guide for his
abridgement.
In the section “Vm Cyrum” the Icelandic has several things not in
his principal source: the name of Cyrus’ mother, “Mandanes” (f. lir;
cp. 1595, f. 29v), and this detail concerning the hare under whose skin
a secret message was sent from Harpagus to Cyrus: