Old Icelandic · AI translation
Alexanders saga
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
1v.7–1v.10
hét. Sá maðr var með hirð konungsins, er Neptanabus hefir heitit. Inn mesti galdramaðr
called. There was a man at the king's court who was named Nectanebo. The greatest sorcerer
var hann. Af sínum gǫldrum ok gerningum fekk hann svá gǫrt, at hann náði at sofa með dróttningunni sjalfri.
he was. By his spells and sorceries he brought it about that he managed to sleep with the queen herself.
Af því trúðu margir Alexander. hans son vera en eigi konungsins Philippi. En athǫfn hans hefir þat þó síðan sannliga
Because of that many believed Alexander to be his son and not King Philip's. But his deeds have since nevertheless truly
birt, at hann var konungsson en eigi hórbarn. ok son Neptanabi, sem óvinir hans brigzluðu honum eftir því, sem
shown that he was a king's son and not a bastard and the son of Nectanebo, as his enemies taunted him, according as
Translator's note. Nectanebo is Neptanabus in the text.
The whole original: Menota's corpus at Clarino (open AM 519a 4to).