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Class C: 61 (AM 61, fol.).
St. 4 (St. perg. 4to nr. 4).
Flateyjarbók (GkS 1005, fol.).1
Bergsbók (St. perg. fol. nr. I).2
Tómasskinna (GkS 1008, fol.).3
75 c (AM 75 c, fol.).
325 (AM 325 V, 4to).
Two of these, St. 2 and 61, still contain Snorri’s original
chapter 156.4 The other nine have RauSúlfs þáttr instead.
RauSúlfs þáttr cannot therefore have been interpolated into
just one manuscript of the saga from which all nine that
contain it are derived: it must have been interpolated by in-
dependent redactors into separate manuscripts belonging to
each of the three classes.
Although the þáttr must once have existed in manuscripts
independent of Snorri’s Óláfs saga, none of these now sur-
vive. In those manuscripts in which it is found as a separate
story, the oldest of which is GkS 2845, 4to, written in the
fifteenth century,5 the text is still derived from versions in
which it was part of Snorri’s saga. In the case of GkS 2845,
4to, this is shown by the fact that the following chapters of
the saga (157-161, ÓH 462-467) have been copied out as
part of the þáttr although they cannot originally have be-
longed to it. The scribe who did this evidently did so because
these chapters tell of events in which Rauðúlfr’s son Dagr
took part.
1 Facsimile in Corpus Codicum Islandicorum Medii Aevi I (Copen-
hagen 1930).
2 Facsimile in Early lcelandic Manuscripts in facsimile 3 (Copen-
hagen 1963).
3 Facsimile in Early Icelandic Manuscripts in facsimile 6 (Copen-
hagen 1964).
4 One other class C manuscript, AM 325 VII, 4to, which has a
lacuna in this part of the saga, can be seen, from the length of the lacuna,
to have once had Snorri’s version of the story, and not the full text of the
þáttr, see ÓH 935, 1129.
5 Facsimile in Manuscripta Islandica 2 (Copenhagen 1955). See
ÓH 1130.