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GRIPLA
Völsunga saga that we have in 147 is a fragmentary passage seeming
to correspond almost word for word to the one in 1824 b in which
Áslaug refers to the meeting of Sigurðr and Brynhildr on Hindarfjall,
and her resultant birth.28 Another point made by Bjami which re-
quires some development is that the 147 text of Ragnars saga is, in
comparison with the 1824 b text, ‘kjarnyrtari og styttri’,29 that is,
pithier, shorter, less wordy. Since Bjami gives no examples in support
of this view, a list of references to those corresponding passages in the
two texts which illustrate the generally pithier nature of the 147 text
may be given here. This list will serve the twofold purpose of con-
firming Bjarni’s rather sweepingly made point that 147 is the more
economically worded of the two texts, and of helping to show, by
virtue of the close similarities to each other of the corresponding
passages, how closely these two texts of Ragnars saga resemble each
other. References are to the page and line numbers in Olsen’s edition.
1824 b 147
1 119, 8-13 176, Bl. lr, 2-4
2 125, 26-27 178, Bl. 3r, 25-26
3 127,21-22 179, Bl. 3v, 26
4 127, 22-24 179, Bl. 4r, 1-2
5 128, 28-30 179, Bl. 4v, 1-2
6 129, 9-10 179, Bl. 4v, 5-6
7 129, 25-26 180, Bl. 4v, 16-17
8 135, 3-11 180, Bl. 6v, 4-8
9 138, 8-10 182, Bl. 7v, 7-8
10 138, 17-18 182, Bl. 7v, 16-17
11 142, 5-8 182, Bl. 8v, 16-18
12 143, 22-144, 17 183, Bl. 9r, 23-24
13 149, 10-11 184, Bl. llr, 3
14 149, 15-18 184, Bl. llr, 6-7
15 151,26 185, Bl. 12r, 5-6
16 151,32-33 185, Bl. 12r, 10-11
17 152, 1-2 185, Bl. 12r, 11-12
18 152, 6-8 185, Bl. 12r, 14-15
19 152, 13-14 186, Bl. 12r, 20
28 See Olsen, 180-81, and the footnote to 6v, 11. 1-9, indicating the correspond-
ing passage in the 1824 b text.
20 See Guðnason (1969), 31.