Sigurðar saga fóts (The Saga of Sigurðr Foot)

MIRATOR 11:1/2010 68Konráðs saga follows Jarlmanns saga in AM 529 4 to . 50 Still, Jarlmanns saga’sdependence on Konráðs saga nevertheless seems likely, its version of thewall-as-source appearing as:Eistare Uirgilius hefer samansett marga fræde til skemtanarmaunnum j bok þeirre er Saxafræde heiter. Enn sgu þ sem numunu uær byria fann hann skrifada steinuegginum borgar þeirrarer Licibon heiter j FranzMaster Virgilius has composed many learned texts for people’senjoyment in that book which is called Saxafrœði. But the saga whichwe will now begin, he found written on the stone wall in that citywhich is called Licibon, in France.The wall-as-source motif in Vilhjálms saga is too similar to that in Jarlmannssaga to be an independent reflex of Konráðs saga:SAGA þessi hefzt fyst j Englandi og fer sidan ut til Saxlandz og þa tilGrilandz og þui næst uestur j Affrika allt ut under solarsetRit ogþadan j sudrhalfu heimsins til hinnar miklu borgar Ninive. og þadanut at heims enda til hinna miklu fialla Kakausi. þessi saga var tekin afsteinuegginum j Babbilon hjnni miklu. og meistari Humerus hefersamsett hanaThis saga begins initially in England, and proceeds thereafter toGermany; and then to Byzantium; and then west to Africa, right outunder the setting sun; and from there into the southern part of theworld, to the great city of Ninive; and from there to the end of theworld, to the great mountains of the Caucasus. This saga was takenfrom the stone wall in Babylon the Great, and Master Homer hascomposed it.Given the other hints at a direct connection between Konráðs saga andJarlmanns saga, it is most economical to assume that Vilhjálms saga, first50 Jarlmanns saga ok Hermanns i yngre handskrifters redaktion, Hugo Rydberg ed., Møller: Copenhagen1917, i-11 (MS dates) and 44 (text); Handrit.is, at .