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P. 327 ‘stuttr vidbætir eddu. Innihald. 1. Innihald eddu. 2. Rúnir. 3.
Bundnar málrunir. 4. Þyding málruna.’
Pp. 328–38 ‘Innihald Eddu.’ Comprises headings and page numbers of
the whole contents of the volume.
Pp. 338–40: ‘rúnir. 1. Málrúnir blasnar og stúngnar’, ‘2. Adal rúnir’,
‘3. torkenníngar’, ‘4. Alfarún’, ‘5 Óbreittar málrúnir’. Lists five runic
alphabets.4
Pp. 340–41: ‘Bundnar Málrúnir og þyding þeirra.’
Pp. 341–49: ‘Þídíngin’ (cf. Lbs 1116 4to, ff. 200v–202r).5
At the end of the text of p. 349 (the end of the manuscript) a later hand
has written ‘Hart’ (?) (perhaps a pen trial).
3. evaluation
A great deal of the manuscript corresponds not to the Y version of Magnús
óláfsson’s Edda, but to the X version manuscript thott 1494 4to, or to
AM 742 4to as well as in some cases to the Codex Regius of Snorra-Edda.
No evidence has been found of the influence of Resen’s Edda. On the oth-
er hand there is also a quite large number of scribal additions and changes
(re-ordering, paraphrase, explanatory phrases, expansions).
the redaction in this manuscript has a particular affinity to that in MS
Icelandic 6 in university College London (see EMÓ § 117). the first part,
the ‘Dæmisögur’, has the same additions, omissions and re-arrangement of
the order of material in both manuscripts. ‘Annar Partur’, the lists of ken-
nings, is also very similar. MS Icelandic 6 has most of the same additions
and interpolations as this manuscript, including nearly all of those that cor-
respond to the interpolations in AM 742 4to, though in many cases they
are added in the margins or in spaces at the ends of paragraphs. According
to a note on a flyleaf in MS Icelandic 6, the marginalia are in the hand of
Eggert Ólafsson (1726−68).
Many items in ‘Annar partur’ in this redaction are confused or corrupt,
4 on no. 3 cf. Matthías Viðar Sæmundsson, Galdrar á Íslandi: Íslensk galdrabók, íslensk
þjóðfræði (reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 1992), 81–100. on late runic alphabets in
general, see Alessia Bauer, ‘Die späten Runica Manuscripta aus Island: was versteht man
unter málrúnir?’ Futhark (2010, no. 1):197–223.
5 See http://handrit.is/is/manuscript/imaging/is/Lbs04-1116/200v-202r#0200v.