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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON STJÓRN 17
Jakobsen.7 In EIM XIII (1980:11) I gave this list of the manuscripts attributed
to him:
AM 227 fol, Hand A.
AM 229 fol I. fols. 1–6, 14–15 (Stjórn).
AM 127 4to (Hand 2; Jónsbók).
GKS 3269 a 4to (Jónsbók).
AM 657 a–b 4to (Hand 3; Clári saga and ævint‡ri).
AM 162 a fol b (Egils saga).
AM 240 fol IV (Maríu saga).
AM 242 fol (Codex Wormianus).
AM 667 4to IX (Jóns saga baptista).
NRA 62 (Karlamagnús saga).
AM 544 4to, fols. 20r–21r (Völuspá in Hauksbók).
To this list may now be added a leaf of a psalter preserved in the Kam-
mararkiv in Stockholm (Cod fragm Ps 24), written by Hand A and illumi-
nated by the artist of 227 (Stefán Karlsson 1982:320–322; Gu›björg Kristjáns-
dóttir 1983:66–73). The provenance of this leaf is not known but it may well
be that the psalter of which it is a remnant was made for export and came
early to Norway or, perhaps, direct to Sweden (Stefán Karlsson 1982:321).
It is proper to mention that Alfred Jakobsen has cast doubt on the attribu-
tion of Codex Wormianus and the Völuspá in Hauksbók to Hand A; he would
prefer to see them as products of the same scribal school (Jakobsen 1965:50;
cf. Johansson 1997:159–168). Stefán Karlsson’s opinion, on the other hand, is
that they are more likely to be the work of Hand A but written in a different
period of his career. I return to this problem in section (3) below.
As noted above, Hand B is found in fragments of two more Stjórn
manuscripts, AM 229 fol I (fols. 7–13 and 16) and NRA 60A. Stefán Karlsson
has further pointed out to me that his hand can be identified in a few more
texts. First to mention is AM 657 a–b 4to (Hand 4 there, on fols. 29–74, 98–
100). Dr Selma Jónsdóttir had earlier noted, though without elaborating the
point, that the hands of both the 227 scribes were to be found in 657 (1971:
66), doubtless referring to Hands 3 and 4 in that codex, where Hand 3 is
undoubtedly to be identified as our Hand A (cf. the list above). Jonna Louis-
7 A. Jakobsen 1965:44–50; see Jakob Benediktsson 1980:10–12. References to the observa-
tions of earlier scholars will be found in both these places. See also: Johansson 1997:66–80,
222–228.