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poems by the rev. Hallgrímur Pétursson and Guðmundur Kolbeinsson at
Marbæli are included.”22
In the contents section of the first volume of Hvarfsbók, Þorsteinn
Þorkelsson writes that “Sprundahrós” was “ort af J.J.s. líklega sjera
Ingjaldur sem var í Múla †1832” [composed by J.J.s., likely rev. Ingjaldur
who was at Múli †1832] (fol. 8v). according to Þorsteinn, the subsequent
three poems in the codex are also by “Sr JJS”: “Vinaspegill” (incipit:
“Maður skyldi manni hjálpa”), which outlines ideals of friendship (fol.
135r); another vikivakakvæði, “Hugraun” (incipit: “Innplantaði allra fyrst”),
which gives examples of famous marriages from the Bible, history, and the
sagas (fol. 138v); and an epithalamium to rev. Sæmundur Þorsteinsson að
Garpsdal (1745–1815) and Ingibjörg Þorsteinsdóttir (1722–1805) (in cipit:
“Linar sút, lyftir brúnum”) (fol. 142r). Þorsteinn Þorkelsson’s attribution
of “Sprundahrós” to rev. Ingjaldur Jónsson að Múla (1739–1832) in ÍB 815
8vo may derive from Sighvatur Grímsson Borgfirðingur’s (1840–1930)
Prestaæfir, preserved in Lbs 2358–73 4to, where it is listed in the sixteenth
volume (Lbs 2373 II 4to) as among those poems composed by Ingjaldur
(p. 979). Ólafur Davíðsson’s attribution of the poem to Ingjaldur almost
certainly derived either from Þorsteinn Þorkelsson or Sighvatur Grímsson
Borgfirðingur.23
However, in Gunnlaugur Jónsson á Skuggabjörgum’s tran scriptions
of the poem in JS 255 4to and JS 589 4to, “Sprundahrós” is ascribed
to rev. Jón Jónsson á Kvíabekk (1739–85); in JS 255 4to, the heading
of the poem reads “3ia Kvæde kallast Sprunda hrós. ordt af Sjra Jóni
Jónssyne” [the 3rd poem is called “Sprundahrós,” composed by rev.
Jón Jónsson] (p. 10), and in JS 589 4to, the attribution comes at the end
of the poem following the final stanza (“Jón Jónsson á Kvjabekk prestr”
[rev. Jón Jónsson á Kvíabekk] [p. 145]). Jón and Ingjaldur were more or
less contemporaries, and were priests in neighbouring dioceses – Jón’s
parish was at Kvíabekkur in Eyjafjörður, and Ingjaldur’s in Múli was just
to the east in Þingeyjarsýsla. they likely knew one another, or at least
knew of one another. the two men overlapped while at Hólaskóli; Jón
22 Silvia Hufnagel, “the farmer, Scribe and Lay Historian Gunnlaugur Jónsson from Skugga-
björg and his Scribal network,” Gripla 24 (2013): 244–45.
23 Jón Árnason and Ólafur Davíðsson eds., Íslenzkar gátur, skemtanir, vikivakar og þulur, 3:
342–43.
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