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IRSA II 62) that some time after he left the school during a stay
with his mother he had become very ill (probably after his dismissal
as a parish clerk), “adeo ut ... mentis pæne inpos essem”, but never-
theless he had recovered. Bishop borlåkur is then said to have used
his disease as a pretence not to give him any office, as he expressed
fear of a relapse.
1797 viro: It was the minister, Einar Arnfinnsson (see the note
to nos. 65-68), cf. above and p. 13814 with note. G. A. mentions
him by name in the defence (IRSA II 59).
17915 scripto: Einar Arnfinnsson had in 1642 written a legal
treatise about the provisions of the lawbook on the duties of support,
known under the name of “Framfærslukambur” (preserved in copy
in AM 193, 40, and a series of copies in Landsbåkasafn Islands).
17921 poetis: This is in the first line a reference to Bjom Jons-
son at SkarSså who has made a poem about Storidomur (preserved
in AM 440 a, i2mo), see PEOl. Mom. IV 692-93. A stanza of this
poem is quoted in Discursus oppositivus (IRSA II 37). In a mar-
ginal note to the place (probably in G. A.’s own hånd) a reference
is also made to poems by the minister, Einar SigurSsson (1538-
1626), “S. Vigfus h. å Vollum, fortali yfir Blankinfru rimu” (un-
known) and Amgrimur Jonsson. In the last one it is, however, only
a question of hints in poems about other subjects.
1801 graviter audiebat: Already in 1629 Amgrimur complains
of deafness, see p. 1528.
1802 epistolam: In Ny kgl. Saml. 1942, 40, fol. 47 the letter
from G. A. to Amgrimur is found (written by G. A. himself) which
accompanied Discursus (dated June i3th, 1648). It is inserted
immediately before Discursus (IRSA II 55-56).
1802 qvam: Written Qvem.
18015 obitus: Amgrimur Jonsson died on June 27th, 1648, only
a fortnight after his receipt of Discursus.
18017 pastor ille: Einar Arnfinnsson.
18024 notis: In the manuscript of Discursus in Ny kgl. Saml.
1942, 40, are several marginal notes written in two hånds, one of
which undoubtedly is that of Amgrimur Jonsson. The other one must
accordingly be Einar Amfinnsson’s, and the manuscript thus the
very copy which G. A. sent to the two ministers. G. A. must thus
have had it sent on from Iceland after he had written letter no. 95.