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thrown upon a rock, but retains his lyre upon which he plays. 

 Some fishermen, attracted by the sound, draw near. They say : 

 '^ We have fished here eighteen years, and lived in darkness and 

 light ', now is come hither a sea-demon (a haffuetrold) who will 

 spoil our fishing." 



Apollonius says : " I am no sea-demon ; I am a poor shipwrecked 

 man ; may God bring me safe to land." ''Are you a Christian ?" 

 ask the fishers, *' and can you pray to Jesus, the Son of Mary, who 

 died for us all?" He raises his right hand, makes the sign of the 

 cross and cries : " Help me now, Jesus, the Son of Mary, who died 

 to save me." 



In the old French poem the shipwrecked Jourdain has no lyre 

 whereon to play, but he wails so loud that the fishers hear him. 

 The poem proceeds : 



Si com Jordains se gaimentoit ainsiz, 

 Garde par mer, voit un home venir 

 En un batel qui moult estoit petis, 

 Et quiert poissons, c'est li ars, dont il vit ; 

 Et li peschierres tout droit a lui s'en vint, 

 Et li demande : " Va, quel chose iez tu ci ? 

 Se iez fantosmes, de deu te contredi, 

 Que de parler n'aiez vers moi loisir." 

 Et dist Jordains : " Se dex m'ait, nenil ; 

 Ainz sui uns anfes d'autre terre chaitis. 

 Parmi la mer m'en venoie un juesdi 

 A grant compaingne de chevaliers gentiz ; 

 Mais Sarrazin nouz orent assaillis, 

 Vos gens ocistrent et s'en remest des vis," etc. 

 (Jourdain de Blaivies, ed. Hofmann, p. 142, lines 1296- 1 309). 



The resemblance here is more than accidental. The circum- 

 stance is found in neither the Latin Historia nor any of the other 

 versions. Riese reads, '' Et prosternens se illius ad pedes effusis 

 lacrimis ait ' miserere mei, quicumque es, succurre naufrago et 

 egeno, non humilibus natalibus genito ! Et ut scias, cui miserearis, 

 ego sum Tyrius Apollonius,' " etc. Nyrop's conclusion was that 

 in Denmark as in France there had been two diverse redactions, 

 and that the Danish folks-book, a translation, as has been said, of 

 the Augsburg folks-book, had no connection whatever with Jourdain 

 de Blaivies. 



