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4 29 + 31–37 First leaf badly faded on the recto and outer col umn
cut away; younger replacement inserted as f. 30; last
leaf somewhat worn at edges.
5 38–45 First and eighth pages partly faded.
6 46–53
7 54–61 Njáls saga ends after only eight lines of outer column
on penultimate page, rest of that column blank; all of
last page originally blank, but a drawing added later
illustrating Egill Skallagrímsson’s duel with Ljótr the
berserk; Jón Helgason reported in 1939 that he could
read not only the caption to this drawing, but also—
at the bottom of the page—the above-quoted instruc-
tion that (the lost) *Gauks saga Trandilssonar should
be inserted here.11
8 62–69 All of first page originally blank, but here too a draw-
ing added later; Egils saga begins at top left-hand
corner of second page with an initial seven lines
high; inner column of second page faded toward
margin; last page now largely obliterated.12
9 70–77 Front page, esp. top of outer column, badly faded.13
10 78–83 Outermost bifolium (ff. *77, *83 bis) lost; van
Weenen remarks on a special bookmark at the outer
edge of f. 78,14 the purpose of which must have been
to indicate the first lacuna.
11 84–91 First two leaves worn at outer margin; last page, esp.
inner column, faded.
12 92–99 First and (to a lesser extent) second page faded; pen-
ultimate page very seriously faded, Egils saga ends
here at bottom right-hand corner; Arinbjarnar kviða
added by a later hand, but now obliterated, on origi-
nally blank back page of quire.15
13 100–07 First and penultimate pages somewhat faded; Finn-
11 See above, § 1 with n. 4.
12 Bjarni Einarsson, Egils saga Skallagrímssonar, vol. I, XXX–XXXI.
13 Ibid., XXXVIII–XXXIX.
14 Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen, A Grammar of Möðruvallabók, 18–19.
15 Bjarni Einarsson, Egils saga Skallagrímssonar, vol. I, XXXIX.