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has a similar interpolation in the same place, hut very much
shorter, and also inserts a few lines earlier, before Rauðúlfr
tells the king about his family, an even briefer siunmary of
the testing of Dagr and Sigurðr’s boasts (ÓH 681/3, v.l.).
This text therefore mentions this testing three times in all
(Flb II 297/33-298/4, 301/4-5, 11-13).
The text of RauSúlfs þáttr in GkS 2845 is almost identical
to that in Flateyjarbók, and is usually assumed to derive from
it.1 Some readings however suggest that it is independent,
and is derived from a closely related sister manuscript, e.g.
at ÓH 655/5 all manuscripts have drambsmenn (GkS 2845:
dramsmenn) except Flateyjarbók, which has bramlsmenn;
at ÓH 665/6 most manuscripts have taka (so GkS 2845) but
Flateyjarbók has fá.
Another redaction of RauSúlfs þáttr (bx) is found in 68,
75 a (321), and Bœjarbók. These three manuscripts share a
large number of variants in the text of the þáttr against the
other six, see ÓH 656/12, 674/10, 679/2, 6, 680/1, 682/4,
variant readings. 75 a (321) and Bœjarbók have particular-
ly closely-related texts both of Óláfs saga helga and RauSúlfs
þáttr (see ÓH 655/4, 656/4, 660/10, 11, 13, 661/12, 672/1,
variant readings) and are obviously both derived from a
manuscript of the saga which already contained the þáttr.2
68, 75 a (321) and Bœjarbók have four interpolations in
the text of RauSúlfs þáttr. The first is near the beginning of
the story( ÓH 656/6-7, v.l.), and appears to be an expansion
of statements about Rauðúlfr and his homestead found else-
where in the þáttr (e.g. ÓH 657/4-5, þar ... bœ, which
these manuscripts omit). The second and third interpola-
tions in this redaction are passages borrowed from Snorri’s
version of the story. Rauðúlfr’s speech about his family
history is put at the beginning of the feast as soon as the
king arrives at Rauðúlfr’s house (ÖH 658/15, v.l.) andDagr’s
1 ÓH 1130; but see Jón Helgason’s introduction to the fascimile
edition of GkS 2845 (p. 70, note 5 above), pp. x—xi.
2 See ÓH 1129—30; cf. also the stemma, ÓH 1103.