Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.06.1964, Blaðsíða 13
1. SAGA þessi hefzt fyst j Englandi og fer sidan 30v
ut til Saxlandz og þa til Gri(ck)landz og þui næst
3 uestur j Affrika allt ut under solarsetRÍt og þadan j
sudrhalfu heimsins til hinnar miklu borgar Ninive.
og þadan ut at heims enda til *hinna miklu fialla
e Kakausi. þessi saga var tekin af steinuegginum j
Babbilon hjnni miklu. og meistari Humerus hefer
samsett hana. *Enn til mega heyra þeir menn til
9 slikra sagna at eigi þicki uijst huort sannliga se saman
settar þuiat sa sem okunnik er landa skipun ma vera
at hann kalli þat j austur sem hann ætti j uestur enn
2 Gricklandz] supplied, from 548, lr, 577, 3v.
5 hinna] from 548, lr, 577, 3v, hianna MS.
6 Kakausi] Kaukasa 548, lr, 577, 3v.
8 Enn] from 548, lr, 577, 3v, Et MS. heyra þeir menn]
þeir menn heyra 548, lr, 577, 3v.
1. This story begins in England, passes on to Saxland
and then to Greece, proceeds to Africa right out to where
the sun goes down, thence to the great city of Ninive in
the southern hemisphere and finally to the mighty Kakausi
mountains at the end of the world. The story, which was
compiled by Master Homer, was found on the stone wall
in Babylon the great. There are perhaps listeners who
doubt the truth of such narratives; the man who is
ignorant of geography may happen to call that the east
which he ought to call west, and that the south which