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INTRODUCTION
59. Gripla. In Gronlandia AJ used a kind of description of
Greenland, which we know in a copy made by Bjorn Jånsson å
SkarSså (in AM 115 8vo). Bjorn calls his source Gripla, and
it was probably this same manuscript which AJ used, see II
2301-5'17-29, 23033—2310, 23118—26, 2 4 38-9 and notes.
60. Fjardatal å Grænlandi. AJ reproduces a list of the Green-
land fjords in Gronlandia (II 23723-23813). A corresponding list
is preserved in Bjorn Jonsson a SkarSså’s copy in AM 115 8vo;
AJ’s source was certainly the same as Bjorn’s, possibly the same
manuscript as was used in no. 59 above.
61. Kirknatal d Grænlandi. A list of the churches in Greenland
is given in Gronlandia (II 2424-24). A similar list is found in
Flateyjarbok, but this cannot have been AJ’s source (see note ad
loc.) ; one must rather presume the use of a manuscript now lost.
62. Fylkjatal i Noregi. A list of the Norwegian counties (fylki)
is given in Supplementum, see I 162° 24 and notes. The source
must have been a manuscript, now lost, closely related to that
from which Ole Worm published a similar list in 1632 (in P.
Claussøn’s Norgesbeskrivelse) ; the manuscript used by Worm is
also lost.
63. Laws relating to local levies (leidangr) in Norway. A pas-
sage on the Norwegian statutes concerning local levies, which AJ
writes in Supplementum (I 31525—3165), is also found in AlfroeSi
islenzk I (see note ad loc.). We cannot tell whether AJ made
direct use of this or whether the information came to him through
some intermediate source.
64. Documents. In Brevis comm., Supplementum, Crymogæa,
Gronlandia, Anatome and Epistola, AJ made use of a whole
series of documents of various kinds, especially though in Crymo-
gæa, see I 75, 307-8, 312, 314, II 170-1, 176-215, 243-4, 340,
III 18, and notes. AJ must undoubtedly have had access to most
of these documents in the cathedral archives at Hålar. Reference
should be made to the notes for all details, but we may observe
here that AJ made use of some documents which are only known
to us in his reproduction, see II 19535—19619, I9620-I977, 19736—
1981 and notes.
The foregoing list shows full well that AJ was not exaggerat-
ing when he gave the number of the manuscripts he had used as