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GRIPLA
Stock. pap. 8 4to was brought to Sweden, possibly by the Icelander
Jón Rúgmann, where it had several owners before it was bought by
the Stockholm College of Antiquities in the year 1741 whence it came
to the Royal Library in Stockholm.29
AM 439 4to is written by Björn Jónsson on Skarðsá before 1646 and
probably somewhat earlier.30 Björn Jónsson seems to have written the
manuscript for Bishop Þorlákur Skúlason at Hólar.31
AM 439 4to contains a summarized and sometimes drastically
abridged version of Sturlunga saga. It is based, according to Kálund,
on Björn Jónsson’s copy of the vellum Reykjarfjarðarbók (AM 122b
fol.), but includes occasional details from St. I (Króksfjarðarbók).32
AM 439 4to contains several marginal notes and comments, similar
and sometimes identical to those found in Br. (see above).33 In AM
439 4to Arni Magnússon has written in Latin that the manuscript was a
present to him from Torfæus. A letter from Torfæus to Árni Magnús-
son, now contained in AM 284 fol., shows that AM 439 4to was sent by
ship from Stavanger in the year 1697.34 AM 439 4to is very rarely re-
ferred to in the present text and quoted as such.
Advocates’ Library 21-3-17 (V) belongs to a somewhat separate
group from IIp (see above). The manuscript derives from an original
(now lost) compiled and written before 1729 by Síra Eyjólfur Jónsson
at Vellir (1670-1745). According to a letter to Árni Magnússon written
on the seventh of October 1729 by Síra Eyjólfur this now lost original
was then in his possession. Síra Eyjólfur also states that it was com-
piled from three sources, i. e., from a manuscript written by Pétur Ein-
arsson, and from Br. (not mentioned directly in the letter) and from a
manuscript owned by Páll Vídalín.35 This last-mentioned manuscript,
British Library Add. 4865, was written in 1696-1697 and belongs to the
Ip group.36
29
Kálund, op. cit., p. lix.
30 Kálund, op. cit.. pp. lxv-lxvi.
31 Kálund, op. cit., p. lxvi.
32 Kálund, op. cit., p. lxv.
33 Kálund, op. cit., p. lxvi.
34 Kálund, ibid.
35 Kálund, op. cit., pp. lx-lxiii.
36 Kálund, op. cit., pp. liv-lv.