Gripla - 20.12.2008, Page 58

GRIPLA56
contained an abridged version of this text, which is an Old Norse
translation of Petrus Alphonsus’ Disciplina clericalis.
What is now the third quire has always consisted of only seven •
leaves, of which 1 and 7, 3 and 6, and 4 and 5 were originally con-
joint. The second leaf of this quire is a singleton and was from
the beginning inserted into the quire as a loose leaf. The first four
leaves of this quire are in Hand 3. The scribe may have been a
Norwegian in Haukr’s service at the beginning of the fourteenth
century (Gunnar Harðarson and Stefán Karlsson 1993, 271), but
the trimming of the leaf suggests that it may have been written
independently and then obtained by Haukr and cut down to fit
the manuscript. Jón Helgason (1960, xi, xx) also attributes this to
a Norwegian scribe but dates it from around 1290 to 1334. The last
three leaves were originally left blank.
15r: The end of an exemplum about how a saint fearlessly •
upbraids a king for his conduct and is allowed by the king to
go in peace.
This exemplum is from a translation of Petrus Alphonsus’
Disciplina clericalis (Sveinbjörn Rafnsson 1992).
15r–16r: “Fra heilræðum spekinga”•
This didactic dialogue between a teacher and his student is of
unknown origin.
16r–17r: “Af natturu mannzins ok bloði”•
This text about the nature of man and of blood is derived from
Bede’s Constitutio mundi.
17r–18v: “Huaðan kominn er Christus drottin”•
This text about Seth’s journey to paradise is drawn from a
variety of sources, including an anonymous Latin text from
the end of the thirteenth century (Meyer 1882, 128–149), Peter
Comestor’s Historia librum regum (Bk. III, ch. 26), and Jacobus
de Voragine’s Legenda aurea.
[18v, lines 31–35: An Icelandic writer (“Hand 4”) filled the •
blank space at the bottom of 18v with an unrubricated text
that begins “Þesser eru xij heims osomar”. This is an Icelandic
rendering of De duodecim abusivis sæculi. The Latin original is