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of the Gottskálks Annaler as presented in storm’s edition.35 the b ver-
sion includes all of the manuscripts of the annals Storm groups with the
Gottskálks Annaler except for the Gottskálks Annaler themselves (which
continue on to 1578 with an independent chronicle of events after the an-
nals he was copying stopped in 1394).36
In storm’s edition, b does not reference an extant manuscript but is
rather shorthand for a now lost annals manuscript that he believes shared
an exemplar a with the annals used by gottskálk for events up to 1394.37
storm posits that the other manuscripts he mentions and uses in his edi-
tion derive from this now lost text.38 these versions stop in 1394 when the
now lost exemplar seems to have stopped; they are not incomplete copies
of the Gottskálks Annaler.
storm uses three manuscripts in his edition of the Gottskálks Annaler.
Manuscript 5 octavo (late sixteenth century), in the royal Library in
Stockholm, which is the copy made and continued by gottskálk and his
son, is the main text. Storm notes variants from AM 412 4to (1600-1650),
which he abbreviates as I, and AM 429 a 4to (1600-1700)39, which is ab-
breviated H. Storm is also aware of two other manuscripts that he believes
derive from the same b exemplar, although he does not use them to estab-
lish the text. these are AM 410 4to (c. 1640) and excerpts made by otto
sperling in Gks 3638 8vo (seventeenth century).40
35 Derolez, “Beinecke MS 508.”
36 Islandske Annaler, xxv–xxvi.
37 Islandske Annaler, xxxii.
38 there is no reason to doubt that the posited b manuscript existed, but it is only an educated
supposition.
39 this manuscript is now in parts following conservation work by Birgitte Dall in 1970,
as AM 429 a 1 4to and AM 429 a 2 4to. AM 429 a 1 4to contains 18 leaves and two loose
leaves in a separate folder and AM 429 a 2 4to consists of a single leaf. See the entries for
“AM 429 a 2 4to” and “AM 429 a 1 4to” on handrit.is (accessed March 31, 2014).
40 there was once a leaf of still another copy of these northern annals in the Árni Magnússon
collection, but it has since been lost. Storm writes that, “Derimod har den samme original
maaske omtrent paa samme tid paa Nordlandet været benyttet til en Annalsamling for Aar
636−1394, som citeres i 17de Aarhundrede under titelen ‘Annalar vm þad sierligt sem til
hefur fallit i Danmark noregi Þyskalandi og Islandi og annarstadar fra þui datum skrifadist
636’ Af disse Annaler har den Arnamagnæanske Samling havt et Membranblad, som nu er
tabt.” [on the other hand, the same original, perhaps at nearly the same time, was used in
the northern part of the country for an annal collection for the years 636−1394, which is
cited in the seventeenth century under the title “Annalar vm þad sierligt sem til hefur fallit
i Danmark noregi Þyskalandi og Islandi og annarstadar fra þui datum skrifadist 636” the