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rhyme (edit. in Smaastykker udg. af Samfund til udg. af gammel
nordisk litteratur 1884-91, pp. 19-20; Wimmer, Die Runenschrift,
1887, pp. 281-88; Lindroth, Arkiv for nord. filol. 29, 1913, pp.
274-95). The explanation has, however, here a form which differs
somewhat from that of the oldest known manuscripts. Jån Olafsson
from Grunnavik has in his unprinted Runologia (AM 413 fok; cf.
Safn FræSafélagsins V 64 ff.) p. 134, besides a number of other
explanations also those given by A. J., but he may have got them
either direct from A. J.’s letter, which he knew, or from Lit. Run.
The runic rhyme has, however, no doubt also been known in verbal
tradition, cf. p. i3217'19.
531 Jrrydeylur (i.e. {mdeilur) : A. J. uses this expression about
the explanation of the runic names in three circumscriptions used
in the runic rhyme; the same applies to p. io5. Bishop Brynjolfur
Sveinsson uses the word in the same sense pp. 13032 and 1318, cf.
also Bibi. Arnam. I 7. Jon Olafsson on the other hånd in his Runo-
logia (AM 413 fol. p. 153) declares that the word is used incorrect-
ly about the explanations of the runic rhyme; he uses it to denote
the so-called twig-runes (cf. Bæksted, Bibi. Arnam. II p. 152).
There is, however, no trace of the word in this sense in A. J. or
his contemporaries.
537 morbus epidemicus: See SkarSsårannåll 1627 (Annålar I
p. 226). Among those who died was A. J.’s first wife, Solveig Gun-
narsdottir (f June 22nd).—Cf. Magnus Olafsson’s letter from the
same month, p. 2i337 f.
61"10 Similar statements are quoted by Worm after A. J. in Lit.
Run. 1636, p. 35, but they can no doubt be traced back to the ac-
count of the runes which A. J. sent Worm in 1629, cf- the note to
p. 1615.
615 metonym(iam) : Written Motonym.
625"26 Fast. lib. III cp. II: Fasti p. 127. A. J. is on the other
hånd not right when he States that Worm there uses stunginn fé
for y; this rune in Worm’s writing stands for v, whereas stunginn
ur denotes y.
634 de meo...commodo: It appears from A. J.’s next letter,
p. 1 o15"22, that Worm has done his part toward obtaining some
favour for him.