[153]. Schöning’s dates are 1722-1780. He was professor of Latin literature and history at Sorö, but his real achievements lie in the field of Norwegian history.
[154]. 1739-1796.
[155]. 1732-1785.
[156]. See the introduction to the Sorö edition, xxv-xxviii, from which the above facts have been culled.
[157]. See Flom’s edition of Konungs Skuggsjá, introduction.
[158]. See the Christiania edition, pp. xiii-xvi.
[159]. In 1892 a small volume of extracts from the King’s Mirror translated by Chr. Dorph was published in Copenhagen.
[160]. It seems probable that the form in which the author of the Speculum expresses his desire to remain anonymous shows the influence of the Old Norse version of the Elucidarium, a theological discussion in dialog form, which dates from the twelfth century and is ascribed to Honorius of Autun. The author of the Elucidarium writes as follows in his preface: “My name, however, I have purposely withheld, lest wicked men should be prompted by a feeling of envy to cast aside a useful work.” For the original Latin preface to the Elucidarium see Migne, Patrologia Latina, CLXXII, 1110; the Old Norse version is given in Annaler for nordisk Oldkyndighed, 1857, p. 240, 1858, p. 24.
[161]. Good day (God dag) is still the common form of greeting among Norwegians and other Scandinavians.
[162]. Proverbs, ix, 10. In the use of Scriptural quotations the author is seldom accurate.