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Schitiæ, og drap 2000 mannz, og tok hofud Cyrij burt af bolnum, og dijfde j)uj
ofann j dammana blodsins, og sagde dreckttu nu bloded, {tig hefur leinge pist i
)>ad. enn so komust pessar stiornar konur fyrst yfer regimentit ad margt af
jreirra månnum fiell hiå watninu Terodis, fyrer Cyro, enn Jreirra kuinnur toku
sverdenn af sijnum [changed from peirra] monnum daudum, og sokttu suo ad
sijnum ovinum, og feingu sigur a Jreim, enn effter petta drapu pær konur menn
hinna sem sijna hofdu mist, og giordust Jtar med allar jafn sælar, enn ecki lifdu
suo marger strijdz færer menn effter, ad allar mættu gifftast, {tær vnnu vnder
sig mikinn hluta Asiæ, og morg lond j Evropa, {rær settu på frijdustu og
wysustu mey Amasia fyrer kong yfer sig, og suo hietu badan af aller meykong-
ar j Schytia, og so eingenn skylide yfer stijga petta peirra lågmal, {tå sendu pær
effter sijnum land setum j skattlondenn, og lietu [rå fiålga mann kyne med
sier, eirninn lietu pær præla sijna verda sier handgeingna til slykra parfa, og
stod suo leinge, eirninn lietu {tær annad huårt drepa svein børninn, edur senda
pau burt til fedra sinna, enn meybornenn fostrudu pær vpp og a medann
meybornenn woru wng brendu pær af peim hægra briosted so pad skylide ecki
baga peim ad skiota af bogum, pær af logdu kuenna pionustu enn tomdu sier
turnjment burtreid og jaganer, woru hardar sem risar.
The faet that GE used a form of Chronica Carionis similar to the
one preserved in this same manuscript makes it likely that he made
this curious association of Amazons with Scythians on the basis of this
passage in Odda-Annålar. In Add. 11153, which was copied too late
(1692) to have been used in composing Einv. (1658), the Chronica
Carionis and the Odda-Annålar are linked together. It is thus very
likely that GE used a parent manuscript in which, as in 11153, these
two texts were joined together.
V. Sjåvarborgarannåll, by Porlåkur Markusson (c. 1692-1736)
Porlåkur Markusson took his student’s examination at Holar in 1712
and spent the winter 1713-14 with Påll Vidalin at Vididalstunga, serv-
ing as children’s tutor. He lived prosperously at Grof on HofQastrond
(SkagafjarSarsysla) from 1714 to 1733, when he moved to Sjåvarborg
(SauSårhreppur, Skagafj.). His annals were begun at Grof in 1727 and
written there for the most part, but have been assigned the name
Sjåvarborgarannåll by Jon Johannesson (they had sometimes been
referred to as Porlåksannåll), since Porlåkur is usually associated with
that farm. The annals are a ragbag collection of native and foreign
material drawn from various written, printed, and (for the final years)
oral sources, covering the years 860-1729. They are preserved in Lbs.
290 folio, mostly in Porlåkur’s own hånd. The first part, covering the
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