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years 860-1399, is a fair copy; the rest is a first draft. Extracts from the
latter portion have been printed in Annålar 1400-1800, Vol. IV (Reyk-
javik 1940-48), pp. 236-349, with an introduction by Jon Johannesson
(pp. 216-35).
The manuscript contains in the margins many references to bor-
låkur’s sources. Of interest here are references to Chronica Carionis
under the years 860, 874, 900, 1002, 1096, 1140, and 1213.
Under the year 860 there is a marginal reference to “Chron: Car.”
next to this entry:
Sama ar rykte Ludovicus pius /: son Caroli magni :/ edur Karlamagnusar :/ sc:
Hlodver :/ fyrer nordann fiall. Enn Leo og Alexander son hans yfer Mikla-
gardj, sem nu kallast Constantinopolus.
I have not found anything close to this in the various versions of
Carion.
Under 874 the margin has “grip:”32 and “Chron: Car.” next to this
entry:
ha var Carolus calvus 4e pis(kur) keisarj, hann fieck sott af ofur mjklum otta
og do so, Effter pad var hann smurdur, vildu peir svo flitia hann j Franka riki,
Enn peim vanst pad ej, firer peim stora odaun, er hanz lykame af sier gaf, En
jnnann 7 åra var hann til Fracklandz fluttur, Enn å medann lå hann til Ve-
nellis.
This story is close to the Danish Carion of 1595, f. 133r:
oc hånd [Carolus Calvus] for fryet skyld falt vdi en suar Siugdom oc døde...
Der hans Legeme vaar saluet / oc Carolus skulde begraffuis / da vilde de ført
Legemet til Franckenland: men det gaff saa suar en ond Luct fra sig / at de
nøddis til at begraffue det vdi Vercellis. Dog 7. Aar der effter / bleff hånd ført
til sin rette Leyersted vdi Franckenland.
But it is even doser to the Icelandic Carion in Add. 11153, f. 67v:
32 The reference, repeated several times in the ms., is possibly to the lost “Gripla,”
part of which is preserved in Grænlands annal. See Stefan Karlsson, “Frodlciksgreinar
frå tolftu old”, Afmælisrit Jåns Helgasonar (Reykjavfk 1969), p. 330; 6lafur Halldors-
son, “Rimbeglusmidur”, Opuscula Septentrionalia: Festskrift til Ole Widding (Copenha-
gen 1977), p. 43; Grænland i midaldaritum, ed. Diafur Halldorsson (Reykjavik 1978),
pp. 229-34.