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Easter and assumption homilies, and the annunciation homily that is the
primary object of this study.15 Jón Þorvaldsson had family at Móberg in
Langidalur, and he is first attested as a priest in a charter from 1474. He
resided at the convent of reynistaðarklaustur from about 1483, held the
position of officialis at Hólar from at least 1495 to 1498, and was made
abbot of Þingeyraklaustur by July 1500, where he remained until his death,
probably in May 1514.16 aM 624 4to was likely written in at least one of
these three places. In addition to this manuscript, Jón’s hand has been
identified in a brief inventory for Þingeyraklaustur found in AM 279 a 4to
(“Þingeyrabók”), as well as in four authentic charters (DI VII nos. 178, 231,
339, and 396) and three forged ones (DI III, no. 564 and DI IV, nos. 544
and 600; Stefán Karlsson’s nos. 121, 233, and 257).17
the two homiletic fragments on fols. 24r–27r of aM 624 4to are
written in a different hand, the same one responsible for the manuscript’s
series of texts on the days of the week and for its copy of the Stave Church
Homily.
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aM 624 4to as a whole struck Árni Magnússon as “illa skrifud.”18 Of the
various orthographies of the book’s scribes, Jón Þorvaldsson’s is particul-
arly unusual, and as a result every editor who has attempted to transc-
ribe a text written by him seems to have settled upon a different method
15 Einar G. Pétursson provides a full account of Jón’s contribution to the manuscript (using
page numbers rather than folio numbers): “hann hefur skrifað liðlega þriðjung af handrit-
inu, þ. e. bls. 91–140.4; 235–269; 271–274.18; 278.14–281; 282.14–312” (Miðaldaævintýri,
xiv).
16 DI V, no 654; VI, no. 443; VII, nos. 178, 284, 314, 363, 405, and 506; VIII, nos. 89,
90, 308, and 421. See Islandske originaldiplomer: Tekst, ed. Stefán Karlsson, xxxi –xxxii;
Miðaldaævintýri, ed. Einar G. Pétursson, xiv–xv; Páll Eggert Ólason, Íslenzkar æviskrár
frá landnámstímum til ársloka 1940, vol. 3 (reykjavík: Hið íslenzka bókmentafélag, 1950),
325.
17 Islandske originaldiplomer: Tekst, ed. Stefán Karlsson, xxix –xxxiii, 152–53, 300–301,
323–24; Islandske originaldiplomer indtil 1450: Faksimiler, ed. Stefán Karlsson, Editiones
arnamagnæanae: supplementum, vol. 1 (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1963), 95, 188, 201.
Summarized in “En norrøn versjon,” ed. tveitane, 6.
18 Árni Magnússon, Arne Magnussons i AM. 435 A-B, 4to indeholdte håndskriftfortegnelser,
med to tillæg, ed. Kommissionen for det arnamagnæanske Legat (Copenhagen: Gyldendal,
1909), 40.