Thanks for that comment, WolfishMusings. Actually now that you refreshed some details in my mind, I think that the two stories I referred to in my first and last paragraph of the OP ARE the same story. Can you please relate the entire story as you know it about the author of Akdamus and why he crossed the river?
That’s about all I remember of it.
Also, who penned the Akdamus and how does that now change the veracity of the story (or at least the veracity of who the protagonist is)?
R. Meir bar Yitzchak of Orleans. I’m not sure that the identity of the author changes anything. Perhaps I spoke a bit too hastily above.
Nonetheless, my other points stand.
The Wolf