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It is though to be noted that in one instance AJ has a reading
which, though different from the Flat. text, is not to be found
in AM 325 V 4to (I 26115, where AJ has 50, while Flat. and
most of the manuscripts of OH, including AM 325 V 4to, have
60; AM 325 VI 4to has “fimtigi”; cf. note ad loc.). This read-
ing does not however carry the same weight as that noted above
in connection with the name Porkell, for there are many inaccu-
rate figures in AJ’s text.—AM 325 V 4to gives an abbreviated
version of the prologue, so that it cannot be considered as a pos-
sible source for AJ’s passage from the Hkr.-prologue, I 16824-
16933; see above under no. 2 and note ad loc.
5. Hulda (AM 66 fol.; edited in Fms. VI—VII). This manu-
script was AJ’s chief source in the section I 26^-202*; Flat. here
takes second place, since only minor additions can be shown to
be derived from its text, see notes to I 27i20-2732, 29623_2T.
There are however some passages where it is impossible to de-
cide which of the two sources was used. That AJ used Hulda and
not the parallel manuscript Hrokkinskinna (GI. kgl. sml. 1010
fol.) is shown in the notes to 2'jg21~22, 28o10^11, 28025, 29613, 2993
-3017. A certain amount of this material in Supplementum is
repeated in Crymogæa; the latter has also one additional passage
which is taken from Hulda, see II 15124-30 and note. Hulda was
otherwise rarely used by AJ, see I 4231-2, 42920, II 9416-19 and
notes.—According to the information given by Årni Magnusson
in AM 435 a 4to (see Kålund’s Katalog I 44), Hulda was owned
by Gisli PårSarson (Lawman 1606-13, t 1619), but it is impos-
sible to trace the manuscript before his time and we cannot tell
whether it was in his possession when AJ used it.
6. Bgglunga sggur. AJ used a manuscript of the longer version
of the Bpglunga spgur in the section I 2°37~3°4-6- This version is
known to us complete only in Peder Claussøn’s translation; some
vellum fragments are also extant (see note ad loc.). See no. 8
below on the possibility of determining AJ’s direct source more
precisely.
7. Hdkonar saga Hdkonarsonar. On this saga depend the
passages I 3049-30 58 (repeated for the most part in Gronlandia,
II 24030—24118), and II 1587—10, i6926-i7021. The source may
have been Flat., but we cannot exclude the possibility that AJ had