Note 901 — Chapter VIII · THE WATERS
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Romans d’Alix., Michelant’s edit., 1846, pp. 259–260. This is an interpolation into the part of the poem called by Meyer the “third branch.” It is not by Lambert li Tors, author of the “third branch,” but was derived from the Historia de praeliis (Meyer, Alexandre le Grand, 1886, vol. ii, p. 216). See above, p. 381, note 26. Alexander Neckam (De nat. rer., II, 21) and Roger Bacon also refer to Alexander’s visit to the sea floor. See Thorndike, Magic, 1923, vol. ii, pp. 263–264, 654–655.