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Hrafns saga (at the beginning of chapter 7), also in connection with a
dream strophe (no. 5). Sturlunga saga, however, names the man
(twice) Guðmundr.143
III 4. The man who recites the strophe (no. 27) to Guðbrandr (see
above) is called Vígólfr144 in B' and St. IIp;145 in St. I he is called Ing-
ólfr; A1'3 omits the name; in strophe no. 5 an Ingólfr is referred to (see
above).
III 5. One of the men who are said to have seen visions of light near
the fortifications at Eyrr, where Hrafn is later slain, is identified in
both recensions of Hrafns saga as Steingrímr Ólafsson,146 one of
Hrafn’s men. In Sturlunga saga (both versions), however, his name is
Jón.147 Later in Hrafns saga in the description of the night when Hrafn
was killed, Hrafn asked a man to recite the drápa of St. Andrew to
him. That man (who may be the same one) is also named Steingrímr,
both in the HrsGPH text148 and Sturlunga saga.'49
III 6. The man whom Pétr Bárðarson killed for his parlicipation in
the slaying of Hrafn is identified here in A1 and B as ími Þorkels-
s(on).150 In Sturlimga saga this man is only named once. In St. I his
name is Má151 (in acc.), which AM 439 4to, Br. and V have also; H,
however, has Una (as found in A2"3). In Hrafiis saga this man is also
mentioned as one of the men who went with Þorvaldr to Eyrr, where
he is also called ími152 in A1, but Uni (see above) in A2-3, and ívar in B'.
The name ími is a highly unusual one, which might account for the
misreadings in the various manuscripts.
III 7. HrsGPH text reads: Þorvaldr kom á Eyri með hundrað
manna, ok er hann sér viðrbúning Hrafns, bæði virkit ok fjplmenni
mikit, þá sýndisk honum (i.e., Þorvaldi) óárenniligr bálkr þeira.153 In-
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St. I, 303.
HrsGPH, p. 30, cf. also p. 52.
St., loc. cit.
HrsGPH, p. 39.
St. I, 311.
HrsGPH, p. 41.
St. I, 312.
HrsGPH, p. 45.
St. I, 317.
HrsGPH, p. 40, cf. also p. 54.
HrsGPH, p. 36.