[310]. An echo of Psalms, xix, 5.
[311]. C. xi.
[312]. According to the legend the priest Justin assisted at the funeral of St. Lawrence. Heilagra Manna Sögur, I, 430.
[313]. A somewhat different version of this story is given in the Legenda Aurea of Jacques de Voragine, who quotes the “Miracles of the Virgin Mary.”
[314]. This is probably an allusion to the edict of Theodosius II “which interposes a salutary interval of thirty days between the sentence and the execution.” Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, III, 176; Mommsen and Meyer (editors), Theodosiani Libri XVI, I, part 2, 503 (viii, 40:13). The edict was probably a part of the penance exacted from the Emperor after his massacre of the Thessalonians. See Ambrosius Saga in Heilagra Manna Sögur, I, 40.
[315]. Exodus, xxxii.
[316]. II Samuel, i.
[317]. II Samuel, iv.
[318]. The story of David’s great sin concerning Bathsheba and Uriah and its consequences is told in II Samuel, xi-xii, but it is probable that the author’s source is some Biblical paraphrase rather than the Vulgate itself.
[319]. I Chronicles, xxii, 8.