232 SMYTH — PEEICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. 7, 



€lse7' gamle nordiske Grundskrift, oversatte of C. G. Rafn, P. D. 

 Tredie Bind, Kjobenhavn, 1830. The Apollonius is found on 

 pages 3, 231-238, 242-247, 252-254, 257. 



The Swedish version bears the title '■^ Apollonii Konungens af 

 Tyro Historia uti hwilken Lyckornes Hjul, och themta IVerldenes 

 Ostadighet beskrifwes : Med Lustiga Fragor och Gator beprydd och 

 Nu efter Mangas astundan pa nytt fdrfiirdigat utgifwen af Andrea 

 Johan Arosiandro Tryckf,''' {The History 0/ King Apollonius of 

 Tyre, in which fortune's wheel and the world's unsteadiness are 

 described, with merry questions and riddles, and now after many- 

 requests, revised and published anew). It was issued in 1732, and 

 again in 1747. The last three pages of the 1747 edition of this 

 little book are taken up with a tavern song, '' En wisa som lampas 

 kan til Historien om en man som sin Hustru bortsalde til Rofware, 

 och huru hon blifwit fralst ifran doden " (A song which may be 

 applied to the history of a man who sold his wife to a robber, and 

 how she was rescued from death). The edition 1747^ is not 

 recorded in Backstrom, whose Index records editions of 1642, 1732 

 and 1835. 



The Swedish version is derived from the Gesta Romanorum (see 

 parallelisms in Singer, pp. 130-132). There are also points of 

 resemblance with Steinhowel which induced Haupt to believe that 

 the Danish and Swedish books were both indebted to that text, 

 particularly as the '* wheel of fortune " plays so important a part in 

 Steinhowel. 



Danish Ballad. 



In 1880, Rudolph Klein's Kort Udsigt over det philologisk- 

 historiske Samfunds Virksomhed, 1 878-1 880 (Copenhagen), con- 

 tained a brief of a paper presented by Kr. Nyrop upon " De 

 Historia Apollonii regis Tyri," in which a singular ballad of 

 the thirteenth century relating to the shipwreck of Apollonius was 

 described. The ballad had been referred to by Haupt {Opuscula, 

 iii, 29), a fact of which Nyrop appeared to be ignorant, and it was 

 published in Svend Grundtvig, Danmarks ganile Folkeviser^ ii, 88. 



The ballad is limited to a single episode, the shipwreck of Apol- 

 lonius. Nyrop compared it with the Chanson of Jourdain de 

 Blaivies. As the ship sinks, Apollonius, according to the ballad, is 



1 I am indebted for my examination of this book at the University of Lund to 

 my friend, Prof. Hjelmerus. 



