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1710). Further, according to Kálund,20 the characteristic marginal notes
(see above) prove that Br. is a copy from the one made by Björn Jóns-
son on Skarðsá from Reykjarfjarðarbók (St. II). Kálund also states that
Br. is the only direct copy of Björn’s unabridged copy of the vellum.21
Finnur Magnússon (died 1847) owned Br. and sold it as a part of a
collection to the British Museum in 1837.
In Kálund’s edition of Sturlunga saga he deplores the fact that he
had not full access to this manuscript.22 Kálund quotes Br. in several
ways23 and from the footnotes in the Hrafns saga part of his Sturlunga
saga edition it can be seen that he relies on Guðbrandur Vigfússon’s
Oxford edition almost entirely (references in Kálund op. cit. marked
Bx). In a very few cases24 in the Hrafns saga part Kálund refers to the
manuscript as Br*, which means that the Oxford edition explicitly re-
fers to the British Library’s manuscript. Since Kálund apparently has
not compared this relevant passage to Br. direct, it follows that there
are some inaccuracies in his edition of Sturlunga saga.
Stock. pap. 8 4to (H) was written by Halldór Guðmundsson on Sfla-
staðir in Eyjafjörður in the middle of the seventeenth century.23 It con-
tains Sturlunga saga under the heading: ‘íslendinga saga' and 'Saga af
Arna biskupe'.
According to Kálund the common original of this manuscript and
AM 440 4to was copied from Björn Jónsson’s transcript of the vellum
(AM 122b fol.).26 Kálund’s opinion is supported by J. Simpson and I.R.
Hare in their essay: Some Observations on the Relationship of the II-
Class Paper MSS of Sturlunga saga.21 On the other hand U. Brown is
of the opinion that the common original for Br., H, and AM 440 4to is
Björn Jónsson’s copy itself.28
2(1 Kálund, ibid.
21 Kálund, ibid.
22
Kálund, op. cit., p. lxxiv.
23
Op. cit., p. Ixxiii.
24 Kálund’s edition, I, 299 (twice), 307, 311, 316.
25 Kálund, op. cit., p. lviii; Stefán Karlsson, Halldór Guðmundsson, norðlenzkur
maður, Opuscula IV (Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana XXX), Kbh., 1970, p. 94.
26 Kálund, Om Hándskrifterne af Sturlunga Saga, in Aarbpger, 1901, pp. 271ff., 273ff.
"7 Opuscula I, in Bibl. Arnam. XX, Kbh., 1960, p. 200.
28 U. Brown, A Note on the MSS of Sturlunga saga, in Acta Philologica Scandina-
vica XXII, 1952, pp. 35-40.