HL I.2

English, p.3-4

Pliny the Second also makes mention of this island in the books which he composed concerning the nature of things. This island then, as those who have examined it have related to us, is not so much placed in the sea as it is washed about by the sea waves which encompass the land on account of the flatness of the shores. 5 Since, therefore, the peoples established within the island had grown to so great a multitude that they could not now dwell together, they divided their whole troop into three parts, as is said, and determined by lot which part of them had to forsake their country and seek new abodes.[MS1] 1

1. The choosing by lot of a part of the people for emigration in the case of a famine is a characteristic peculiar to German folktales (Schmidt, 42).

Notes:

- Abraham & Lot

[MS1]Abraham and Lot?