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ANTHONY FAULKES
these references must refer to Brynjólfur’s Conjectanea, the history
of which is as follows:
At the time of the publication of SLR, Brynjólfur had for some
time been studying Saxo and making notes on aspects of the Historia
which interested him. In Autumn 1641 he sent a volume of comments
on the preface and the first two books to Stephanius, and when Step-
hanius published his Notœ Uberiores in 1645, he incorporated many
of Brynjólfur’s notes as far as the fifth book.15
The original MS of these notes is now lost, and an idea of their
contents can only be got from the quotations from it in Notæ Uberio-
res, and from references to them there, it can be seen that Brynj ólfur
called these notes Conjectanea.
But there is another book of notes containing different material,
which he compiled after the publication of Notæ Uberiores, and
which he also called Conjectanea. These he sent to Worm in 1649,
and a manuscript of this second book is preserved in AM 856 4to
(“Brynulphi Svenonii Conjectaneorum in Præfationem Saxonis
Periculum I & II”, dated April 13th, 164.9). From this book some
material has been extracted and inserted into SLR, but there is no
evidence that any material from the first Conjectanea, which was
sent to Stephanius, was used in the glossary, nor was any use made
of Notæ Uberiores itself.10
While the first Conjectanea seems to have consisted of notes to
particular passages in Saxo’s Historia, AM 856 4to contains material
of a more general nature. After a preface devoted to a eulogy of
Worm, Stephanius, and Otte Krag, there is a long and detailed ety-
mological study of the names Saxo and Suno, comprising the first
periculum, and it is from this part of the work that the material for
SLR was taken. The second periculum consists mainly of a para-
16 For more details, see the reference, in footnote 9, to Jakob Benediktsson.
18 Stephanius, however, used material from Magnús’ original glossary in this
publication. See above p. 37.