Gripla

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Cf. also at the beginning of Gylfaginning (K and U omit the first

chapter):

SnE 8/4    af WTNThJ, at R.

SnE 8/6    nokkurs WTNThJ, ¦*¦ R.

There are also a few places in the prologue where the paper manu-

scripts share readings against both R and WTU, which perhaps indi-

cates that they are all derived from the same copy of R, or perhaps

from a sister manuscript of R rather than from R itself:

SnE 5/3    er (2) RWTJ, var KTh (-*- UN).

SnE 5/4    af RTW, ad KThJ (-*- UN).

SnE 5/12 at RTWJ, ¦*¦ KTh (-*¦ N, rephrased U).

SnE 5/12 Oc RWJ, - TUKTh (-*- N).

SnE 5/12 gefa RTWJ, gáfu KTh (+ UN).

SnE 5/17 Saxalandi RTW, Saxlandi UKThJ (-*- N).

SnE 5/21 Vestfal RW, Vestual T, Vestr fál U, Vestur fall K,

Vestphalia, Vestur folld Th, Vestphalen (eðr Vest-

folld) J (- N).

SnE 6/14 vorv RTWUJ, eru KTh (+- N).

SnE 6/15 slikt vald hafa RTW, hafa slikt valld KThJ (-^- UN).

Cf. also at the beginning of Gylfaginning:

SnE 8/9    gaf RWT, + þvi J, + hun þui Th, + hiin N (-^- K

and U).

SnE 8/18 er RWTU, ad KNThJ.

SnE 9/13 skaltv RWT, og skalltu KNJ, og máttu Th (+ U).

It therefore cannot be assumed that in the part of the text where R is

not extant readings shared by the paper manuscripts are necessarily the

readings of R; but the departures from R in the prologue where it is

extant are few and slight, and it is likely that the common original of

the paper manuscripts was very similar to R.

There follows a tentative reconstruction of the text of the missing

leaf of R, based on the text of K, supplemented where there are gaps

from N and Th. The readings of K are retained where they correspond

to T, W, or U, and if they differ from these, where they are confirmed

by one or more of the other paper manuscripts; but readings found only

in K are corrected from one of the other manuscripts. Full variants