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MANIFESTATIONS OF RAGNARS SAGA LOÐBRÓKAR 73
Knúísdrápa.24 Both the quotation itself and the manner in which it is
introduced are the same in Hauksbók and 147; the poem is neither
quoted nor referred to, on the other hand, in 1824 b. I have left out
of consideration both the reference to the poem and the quotation
from it when counting the numbers and percentages of words in com-
mon between the three passages. These numbers and percentages may
now be listed.
147 (Olsen, 193-94, 19r, 9-23):
Total no. of words (excluding verse and ref. to verse)
No. and percentage of words in common with Hb.
No. and percentage of words in common with 1824 b
Hauksbók (ed. Finnur Jónsson, 1892-96, 464, 2-14):
Total no. of words (excluding verse and ref. to verse)
No. and percentage of words in common with 147
No. and percentage of words in common with 1824 b
1824 b (Olsen, 167, 27-168, 13):
Total no. of words (no verse referred to or quoted)
No. and percentage of words in common with 147
No. and percentage of words in common with Hb.
149
45 30%
59 40%
115
45 39%
21 18%
161
59 37%
21 13%
I am ready to admit that these figures do not seem particularly strik-
ing at first glance, but taken together with the figures listed earlier for
147 and 1824 b, they do in fact confirm the expectation raised in the
first half of this paper that towards the end of Ragnars saga there
would be an increase in the differences between 1824 b and 147 on
the one hand, and in the similarities between 147 and Hauksbók on
the other;25 and they also confirm the expectation raised by Bjarni’s
stemma and my own that the correspondences between Hauksbók and
147 would in general be greater than those between Hauksbók and
1824 b. Now since, according to Mageröy’s criteria at least, the liter-
ary relations between 147 and 1824 b have already been well estab-
hshed by the figures given earlier for those two texts, it will be
necessary to concentrate now on Hauksbók and 147 if literary re-
lations between all three extant manifestations of Ragnars saga are to
be established, since these two manifestations of the saga would seem
24 See note 23 to Part I, above.
25 See p. 52 above, and the reference given in note 35.