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about the childhood of Moses at the Egyptian court:
One day Pharaoh takes the boy onto his knee and
puts his crown on the head of Moses but Moses
throws the crown away. A priest who witnesses the
scene prophesies that Moses will bring destruction
upon Egypt and advises that he should be killed.
Pharaoh’s daughter, who is called Termut, excuses
Moses’ action by saying that children do not know
the difference between precious objects and worthless
ones. She demonstrates this by having a burning
candle brought to Moses. He puts it straight into
his mouth and in this way saves his own life but ever
afterwards he speaks with a lisp. When he grows up,
Moses becomes the general of the Egyptian army and
conquers the negroes. He marries Sabba, the daughter
of the negro king. Moses kills an Egyptian and flees
to Madian. — A parallel Icelandic text is found in
Stjórn, pp. 251-57. Parallel Latin texts are found
in Historia Scholastica, coll. 1143-45, in Vincent of
Beauvais’ Speculum Historiale, book 29, and in
Josephus Elavius’ Antiquitates, book 210.
327-33 Leg. 328-29 is a repetition of 196 f., which
is a rendering of KrR II 61. The similarity to A 107-8
must then be coincidental.
333-42 This section deals with the plagues of
Egypt, cf. Exodus 7-11, with the following variations
from the biblical version: The 4th and the lOth
plagues in the Bible are lacking in C. Instead men-
tion is made of two marvellous happenings which
took place during the flight of the Israelites from
Egypt: the transformation of Aaron’s rod into a
serpent (Exodus 7), and the dividing of the Red Sea
(Exodus 14). In C these events respectively introduce
9. Speculum Historiale I, Augsburg 1474, f. 52v.
10. The Loeb Classical Library, Josephus IV, 1930, pp. 258-76.
Cf. M. Griinbaum, p. 153.