1898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 231 



Obersters Cronickschreyben 



Mit dem die Kirch auch wil beleyben 



Jesus Christ Helff uns Gnad erwerben 



Nit lasz uns in den Sinden sterben 



Ewig das wir sind behalten 



Mit alien Rainen Jungen Alten." 



Hie endet sich die Hystory des Kiinigs Appolonius. Getruckt 

 und Vollendt in diser Kayserlichen uund Loblichen Stat Augspurg. 

 Durch Hausen Zimmerman, Anno MDLII. 



Scandinavian Versions. 



Eine sch'one ufide kortwylige Hisioria vam Konige Appollonio wa 

 he van Landt icnde LUden vordreve7i unde vorjaget .... unde dock 

 tho)n lesten wedder in syn Lundt gekamen ys. Hamborch, 1601, 

 octavo. This version by Herman Moller, which follows the Augs- 

 burg of 1552, corresponds to the Danish folkbook entitled, E7i dejlik 

 og skj'on Historie om Kong Apollonio i hvilken Lykkens Hjul og 

 Verdens Ustadighed beskrives ; lystig og fornojelig at Icese og hore. 

 Kjobenhavn, udi dette Aar, 1627. (The beautiful and charming 

 history of King ApoUonius, in which the wheel of fortune and 

 the mutability of life are described ; jolly and novel to read and 

 hear.) A copy of this scarce book is in the Karen Brahes Library 

 in Odensee (Finland). Another edition is dated 1731 (see 

 Grundtvig, Otn Nordensgamle Literati^-, Copenhagen, 1867, p. 5. 

 It is also quoted in Rasmus Nyerup, Ahnindelig Morskabslcesningy 

 Copenhagen, 1816, p. 168, 169. Cf. Haupt, Opuscula, iii, 29). 



The same version (corresponding to the Gesia Romanoriun and 

 containing two riddles — unda and navis) was printed at Copen- 

 hagen, 1660, and a translation of it (Icelandic) is *' Additional 

 MS. 4857 " in the British Museum. The title, identical in meaning^ 

 with the Danish, is '' Ein Agiset og fogur Historia wmm Kong 

 ApoUonius i huorre luckunnar og veralldarin nar ostodugleike 

 skrifast miog nitsamleg ad heira og lesa Prented i Kaupmannahafn, 

 af Christen Jenssyne Wering Acad, og Bokpryckiara, anno 1660, 

 Sagann af ApoUonius Konunge til Tyro," January 7, 1670. 



" Additional MS." 4864 (British Museum) is a modified version 

 of the former. 



The ApoUonius is also to be found in Rafn's translation of the 

 Didrig saga, Nordiske Fortids Sagger efter den udgivne islandske 



