Note to Ólhv Frag 5^III

[All]: The attribution of this fragment to Óláfr was initially based on the similarity with a supplementary example in the Ars Laureshamensis (CCCM 40A, 221), a citation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book 2, line 20, referring to the Trojan horse: uterumque armato milite complent ‘and they fill the belly with an armed soldier’. The explanation in the Ars Laureshamensis (cum non in utero equi erat unus, sed plures milites ‘since there was not one but more soldiers in the horse’s belly’) is also similar to Óláfr’s explanation (TGT 1927, 67): Herr eru margir menn þeir er til orrostu búaz ‘The army are many men who prepare themselves for battle’. This, however, provides a less satisfactory source than the section of the Doctrinale identified by Wellendorf (forthcoming).

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