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STEFANUS SAGA IN REYKJAHÓLABÓK
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Sth. 15 (96rl3) and AM 655 XIV (2v40) the miracles are abruptly, and
without transition, appended to the Inventio; in Sth. 2 they commence
after the first Translatio narrative has come to a rather conclusive end,
thus suggesting that there is no more to tell. To the concluding formu-
laic reference to the Holy Trinity (48rb24-25; Hms 306:13-14), which is
also found in Sth. 3 (238:10-11), the Sth. 2 redaction adds: „honvm se
vegr ok dyrd vm allar alld;> verallda amen“ (48rb25; Hms 306:14-15).
Alone AM 655 XXII, like Sth. 3, contains an introductory, or transi-
tional, sentence to the miracles: „Sva er sagt at margar iartegner gerþ-
ozc at kirkiom þeim er helg[aþar varo] stephano" (2rl9-20). Two man-
uscripts conclude the narrative proper with the Inventio (Sth. 15 and
AM 655 XIV) and two with the first Translatio (Sth. 2 and AM 655
XXII), to which they append the miracles. Only in Sth. 3 are the mira-
cles successfully integrated into the narrative.
If one compares the conclusion of the legend of St. Stephen in Sth.
15/Sth. 2/AM 661/AM 655 XXII on the one hand and Sth. 3 on the oth-
er, the redactions are distinguished not only by virtue of the greater
length of the Sth. 3 redaction, which alone relates how the relics of St.
Stephen were translated from Constantinople to Rome, but also be-
cause of deviation in the sequence of the miracles. In the Sth. 2/AM
661 redaction, as in Sth. 15, the miracles are told in the following se-
quence:
1) a blind woman regains her vision during the episcopacy of
Preiectus
2) a bishop named Lucillus has a growth on his hand and is
cured
3) a priest named Eukarius is cured of kidney stones; he sub-
sequently succumbs to an illness and dies, but is then raised
from the dead
4) Marcialis, a sick pagan, is cured and converted to the faith;
5) at the same time and in the same place two poor sick men
are cured, the one a citizen, the other a foreigner
6) in the city of Audurus a young boy who had been run over
by oxen is raised from the dead
7) a nun is raised from the dead
8) the young daughter of a man named Bassus is raised from
the dead