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HA: Berleich (Mone, p. 526)
226: Berseik (887)
41: Bersoch (258rl 7)
714: Bersok (96r7)
HA: ... jubet afferi imaginem stratis palliis in viam purpureis (Schonbach, pp.
189-190)
226: ... ok let breida fyrir allan veginn. med pelli. ok dyrum uefium (9626'27)
41: ... okskipadi ad breida nydr åeirn dyrlegan vågn, perl og kostuleg klædi, og
skylldi setia bessa quinnu å J)ann Vagn (262vl0-l 1)
714: ... ok skipade ad breida nidur å eirn Dyrdlegann vågn pell og kostuleg Klæde
og skiide sækia bessa kvinnu å beim vågne (101 v6-9)
Moreover, in both 714 (96r5) and 41 (258rl5) Pilate’s father’s name is
Atus, while in the Laun (Mone, p. 526) and 226 (886) he is called
Tirus.15 In both 714 (96v2) and 41 (258vl0) Pilate’s half-brother is given
a name, i.e. Sasem (714)/ Sesesem (41), while in the Latin and in 226
his name is not mentioned. In 226 Pilate’s stepmother is called Anna
(8817, 895); in the Latin and in 714 and 41 she is not given a name.
In 226 (10115) Brandr Jonsson is associated with Alexanders saga while
in 41 and 714 the reference to this work is not found.16 Similarly 41
has a number of additions to the Latin text not found in 226 as
demonstrated by Jon Helgason, pp. 368-369; these addiuons are
found also in 714, e.g.:
41: hann var og miog stutttaladr ad einginn kunnj ad skylia huad hann Sagdi
(256rl4-15)
714: hann var og so stutttaladr, ad eingenn kunne ad skilia, hvad hann
talade (91 vi 7)
41: enn petta skiedi begar hann bar Sinn bunga Kross, og gieck vt til
Krossfestingar og sueiti fiell af han<s) Andliti (262r21-23)
15. The name Atus is not a scribal error for Tirus. The name appears in the Laun
Carmen de Pylato, a younger version of the legend than the one on which the GS legend
is based. See Howard Martin, »The Legend of Pondus Pilate«, Amsterdamer Beitrage zur
ålteren Germanistik 5 (1973), p. 104. See also J6n Helgason, p. 369.
16 For a discussion of Brandr J6nsson’s association with Alexanders saga, see my
article »Gydinga saga, Alexanders saga, and Bishop Brandr Jonsson«, Scandinavian
Studies 60 (1988), pp. 371-400.