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síðan St., síðan om. St. IIp) til fundar við Þorvald ok sggðu honum
vígit (i.e., of Ámundi), [en hann lastaði eigi verkit].129
II e 10. HrsGPH text reads: Til þessa fundar kom [Hrafn, en] Þor-
valdr eigi. [Þá þóttusk menn sjá, at Þorvaldr vildi enga sætt við
Hrafn].130
II e 11. HrsGPH text reads: Þat vígsmál var lagt undir gprð Sighvats
Sturlusonar, því at hann var kallaðr vinr hvárs tveggja þeira Lopts ok
Gísla.131 Sturlunga saga reads only: Þat vígsmál (vígs Br., V, om. St. I)
var lagt undir Sighvat Sturluson.132
II e 12. When the compiler of Sturlunga saga omits the description
of the battle at Víðines, he also omits133 a sentence following the de-
scription in Hrafns saga proper, which in the HrsGPH text reads:
Eptir þetta þóttisk Hrafn ok hans vinir kenna nQkkurn kulða af ráðum
Sighvats í skiptum þeira Þorvalds.134
The compiler of Sturlunga saga also omits eight of the stanzas found
in the HrsGPH text of Hrafns saga. These stanzas are in the HrsGPH
text nos: 21, 23, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34.
The main reasons for shortening the text have already been suggest-
ed. The work is on the whole carefully and thoughtfully done, which
can be seen from the examples given above. The compiler seems to
have followed certain rules for shortening and to have known Hrafns
saga well and had apparently decided beforehand which material to
use and which to leave out.
The compiler of Sturlunga saga does not, as said before, include the
earlier part of Hrafns saga in his work; this is therefore the main short-
ening of the saga. In the latter half the compiler seems to omit things
concerning Hrafn’s private life, as far as possible, without changing the
context, which is probably the reason for his omitting the earlier part
which contains a great deal of personal information about Hrafn’s
early life. The compiler seems not to use Hrafns saga in his collection
until the point where the saga concerns a wider circle.
129 HrsGPH, p. 34; St. I, 308.
130 HrsGPH, p. 37; St. I, 310.
131 HrsGPH. p. 28.
132 St. I, 302.
133 St. I, 303.
134 HrsGPH, p. 29.