But the article states it is not the first reference to this from such a source. Also, I'm not saying he'd know a separate language. But I'm saying the legend

But the article states it is not the first reference to this from such a source. Also, I'm not saying he'd know a separate language. But I'm saying the legend was probably told in many other forms (probably oral), and he would have heard it somewhere else, and it probably retained some linguistic features passing through peoples and places. I think I missed that the civilizations are very far apart in time perhaps, as it was meant to be a prank