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Greetings all,
If I should be writing to someone else about this, please let me know. I have a reference to a scholion in Adam of Bremen which I have down as by Adam himself. But I find myself wondering how we know? Is there a resource to inform us which scholia should be attributed to Adam?
The one I am interested in is at: Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, in Werner Trillmich (ed.), Quellen des 9. und 11. Jarhhunderts zur Geschichte der Hamburgischen Kirche und des Reiches (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1973), p. 478.
at the bottom of the page, 'A Schol. 145 (141). Paulus in Historia Langobardorum . . . (he describes some people lying like the 7 sleepers in a cave in the far north). After this 'a' marks a new scholion pertaining to Trondheim, where someone - Adam? - says that others think they were some of the 11,000 virgins of Cologne. I´m trying to figure out who made the identification with the 11,000 Virgins, Adam or someone else.
If we know.
BTW if anyone is interested, the German langauge note to this passage on p. 479 comments that the legend of the 11000 virgins was transferred to 'St. Sunniva of the family of the Ynglings (Yngligergeschlecht)'. There has been much discussion of whether the story of Sunniva and the people of Selja has borrowed motifs from that of the 11,000 Virgins, but whatever one thinks of that, St. Sunniva does NOT belong to the family of the Ynglings. There a woman named Sunniva is indeed found in aristocratic genealogies in the 11th c, but she is of interest only as evidence that the name was known in Norway at that time.
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