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INTRODUCTION
sage I 319-25) was a manuscript of the expanded saga of Olaf
Tryggvason. He also obtained a variety of material in Rer. Dan.
fragm., Crymogæa and Gronlandia from this source. As was said
above, it is often impossible to decide which of the two manu-
scripts was used, and sometimes AJ combined the texts (see e.g.
notes to I 3231-30, 32332—32528). Even so, there is ampie evidence
that a separate manuscript of the Olåfs saga was used, e.g. notes
to I 1774, 19121—2027, 2076—21128, 22031 22125, 31917-28, 3551-
35931, 36824-36914, II 234®, 23519, 23614-18, 24i21-2424.—The
notes to II 2348 and 23519 demonstrate that AJ used the manu-
script AM 53 fol. (cf. also notes to I i9930-2O27, 21 o5). Nothing
is known of the ownership of this manuscript in the sixteenth cen-
tury, but Årni Magnusson, on a slip pasted into the manuscript,
surmises that it originally came from SkarS on SkarSsstrond in
BreiSafjorSur. Possibly he drew this conclusion from the name
“eggert Bjornnsson”, which is found on the 37th folio. This would
then be the name of the well-known country sherif f (sy slum adur)
of that name (1612-81), whose home was in faet at SkarS. This
conclusion is all the more reasonable, since Eggert Bjornsson was
father-in-law of GuSmundur SigurSsson at Alftanes, from whom
Arni Magnusson got the manuscript. If this is correct, we may
safely assume that at the end of the sixteenth century the manu-
script was somewhere in the BreiSafjorSur region, where Eggert
Bjornsson’s forbears had also lived.
4. 6ldfs saga ens helga. In the section I 24634-2675, AJ used
besides Flat. another manuscript containing the saga of Saint
Olaf. This may be seen, for example, from the notes to I 24820-
25314, 25315-26, 25720-21, 26513-2675. The same is perhaps also
true of one or two pasages in Rer. Dan. fragm., see notes to I
39Te-393S0, 45712-45810.—A form corresponding to the name
reproduced as Thorkillum Bolli, I 2 5720-21, is found only in ma-
nuscript AM 325 V 4to (see Den store Saga om Olav den Hel-
lige, 1941, P- 3261), which has Eorkell, while other manuscripts
of the saga have variant forms (see note ad loc.). It is not un-
likely that at the end of the sixteenth century this manuscript was
in the possession of Jon Magnusson the elder (t 1641), who
lived in the BreiSafjorSur district (see Den store Saga om Olav
den Hellige, p. 926), from where AJ could have had it on loan.