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which 13 contain quotations. It is probable that all these were present
in the original glossary, l)ut were accidentally omitted in its publi-
cation. It is unlikely that Stephanius had sufficient knowledge of Ice-
landic to he able to insert any of them, and the quotations from the
sagas, at any rate, are from the same sources as the other quotations
from them. There is no evidence that Stephanius had any part in the
revision of the glossary, although he took a great interest in it,10 but
his interest seems only to have been in using it for his own purposes.
Guðmundur Andrésson’s Revision of the Glossary. Desmond
Slay suggests that GuSmundur Andrésson may have been responsible
for the insertion into SLR of the two references to Hrólfs Saga.11
This is very likely, and it is fairly certain that GuSmundur did some
work on the glossary, and he may be responsible for most of the
additional material which was not in the original glossary. Not only
was GuSmundur a likely person to have been given tliis task, for
there can have heen very few educated Icelanders in Copenhagen at
this time to whom Worm could have turned for help, hut also there
are some incontrovertible correspondences between entries in SLR
and GuSmundur’s own dictionary, Lexicon Islandicum (Copenhagen
1683), which make it certain that the same man had a hand in thern
both.
GuSmundur Andrésson was born in Iceland in ah. 1615, and lived
there continuously until he was brought to Copenhagen in the sum-
mer of 1649 as a prisoner as a result of writing the treatise Discursus
oppositivus, which attacked hoth the marriage laws and Bishop Þor-
lákur. He wrote to Worm on October 7th of the same year, asking for
his help in ohtaining his release. The letter is preserved (and is
printed as no. 95 in Ole Worm’s Correspondence). His case was re-
considered on 12lh December, and he was released at Christmas.
After this he was probably taken care of by Worm, and he matricu-
10 See his letters to Worm, especially nos. 19, 20, 27, and 28, in Olc IForm’s
Correspondence.
11 Desmond Slay, The Mnnuscripts of Hrólfs Saga Kraka (1960), 135.