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tained 141 folios.6 The Hrafns saga part is preserved in St. I, partly writ-
ten by hand one7 and partly written in hand two.8 Several paper manu-
scripts derive from St. I, none of which are used for the text in the
Hrafns saga edition, Oxford 1987. For a description of Króksfjarðarbók
and its orthography, see Kálund, Sturlunga saga I, pp. ii-xxxii, and Jak-
ob Benediktsson, Early Icel. Manuscr. I, Introduction, pp. 7-17.
b) Reykjarfjarðarbók AM 122b fol. (St. II).
The manuscript called St. II (AM 122b fol.) is the remains of a vel-
lum which was complete as late as the early seventeenth century.7 The
name of the manuscript derives from Reykjarfjörður which runs north-
ward into Arnarfjörður in the Westfjords, where it was owned by Gísli
Jónsson (died 1679).10 Only thirty leaves are now extant, which is con-
sidered to be about one sixth of the original size (ca. 180 leaves).11 The
Hrafns saga passage of Sturlunga saga is not, as mentioned earlier,
among the thirty leaves still extant. For a description of this manu-
script and its orthography see Kálund, Sturlunga saga I, pp. xxxii-xlii.
Copies on paper of both vellums were made while they still were
more or less complete.12 These copies fall into two main groups, Ip and
IIp. The Ip group has not been made use of for this present text, as St.
I (Króksfjarðarbók) is available for the relevant passage from Hrafns
saga. For the description of the manuscripts in group Ip see Kálund
pp. xlii-lv.
c) Paper manuscripts of Sturlunga saga used in the text of Hrafiis
saga Sveinbjarnarsonar (Oxford 1987).
The manuscripts in the IIp group are all derived from a copy made
6 EIM I, Introduction, p. 9.
7
Kálund, op. cit., p. vi.
8 Kálund, op. cit., p. xvi.
9 Jón Jóhannesson, ibid. On the age of this vellum, ca. 1350, see Guðbrandur Vig-
fússon, Sturlunga saga, Oxford edition, I. p. clxxiv. In his article „Ritun Reykjarfjarðar-
bókar“ Stefán Karlsson argues that the manuscript was written by a man from Skaga-
fjörður in the second half of the fourteenth century (see Opuscula IV, Bibliotheca
Arnamagnæana XXX, (Kbh., 1970), p. 130; and also Árna saga biskups, edited by Por-
leifur Hauksson (Rvk., 1972), p. ix).
1(1 Kálund, op. cit., p. xxxvi; Jón Jóhannesson, ibid.
11 Kálund, op. cit., pp. xxxii-xxxiv; Jón Jóhannesson, ibid.
12 Kálund, op. cit., p. ii; Jón Jóhannesson, ibid.