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I.
DE CRITERIIS E SCRIPTORIBUS ALIARUM NATIONUM
SUMENDIS.
Ut scriptoris alicujus fides et aliis auctoribus, quos jam
satis fidos novimus, comparatis, et ipsum librum perlustrando
cognoscitur, studio ingenioque illius et scientia ac narrandi
diligentia perpensis; ita historiae quoque per Islandos pertex-
lae tum aliis cum scriptoribus conseusus, siquidem illi omnium
rerum notitia instructi eadem tradunt minimeque discrepant,
tum indicia ex ipsius natura ac tanquam indole eruenda aífe-
runt fidem. Primum est igitur de aliis auctoribus disserendum,
qui praeter Islandos veterum borealium res attingunt, post,
quae Islandi sibimet ipsi perhibeant, testimonia veritatis pcr-
sequemur.
S- 2.
IIic vero primo loco monumenta recensebimus, quae
ipsas inter gentes septentrionales perantiquo tempore exstite-
runt. Sed de tribus Scandinaviae partibus sola Dania priscas
literas potest memoratu dignas proferre, quia Svecia ejusmodi
niliil omnino liabet, ac Norvegia unum quidem scriptorem
eundemque haud contemnendum sibi vindicans, Islandis tamen
testibus illius et quasi magistris neqnit commparare.
Theodoricus enim Monachus Nidrosiensis, quem
nostrates de vita ipsius inquirentes (1) statuunt exeunte XII
seculo, accuratiusque computantes (2) ante annum 1184 scri-
(1) Dahlmann, Forsclningen auf dem Gcbiete der Geschichte.
Bd. I. p. 366. — Archiv fiir Staats- und Iíirchengeschichle der
Herzogthumer Schleswig, Holstein, Lauenburg, u. s. w. redigirt
von Michelsén und Asmussen. Bd. I.
(2) Giesebrecht. Wcndische Geschichten, Bd. III, p. 359.
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