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at least 26. The exact number cannot be determined, since in
numerous cases we have no means of knowing how many texts
may have been collected in a single codex. We can, with some
certainty, reckon the following manuscripts amongst his immed-
iate sources: Flateyjarbok (nos. 1, 10, 11, 21), Heimskringla
(no. 2, AM 39 fol.?), Olåfs saga Tryggvasonar (no. 3, AM
53 fol.), Clåfs saga ens helga (no. 4, AM 325 V 4to?), Hulda
(no. 5), Bpglunga sggur andMagnuss sagaHåkonarsonar (prob-
ably both in one manuscript; nos. 6, 8), Skjpldunga saga and
Knytlinga saga (nos. 12, 13), Vatnshyrna (no. 16, including nos.
17, 19, 20, 24, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32), Egils saga (no. 18), Land-
nåmabok (no. 28), Njåls saga (no. 30, AM 468 4to), Gott-
skalksannåll (no. 33), Hungrvaka (no. 35, possibly nos. 39, 41
in the same manuscript), Jons saga ens helga (no. 36), Lauren-
tius saga (no. 37, AM 180b fol.), Sturlunga saga (no. 40),
HeiSreks saga (no. 44), Ragnars saga (no. 45, Ny kgl. sml.
1824b 4to?), Grågås and JårnsiSa (nos. 48, 49, Papp. 4to no.
66), Landslag Magnusar Håkonarsonar (no. 50), Codex Wormi-
anus of Snorra-Edda (no. 51), Konungs skuggsjå (no. 55),
Gripla (no. 59, possibly nos. 60, 61 in the same manuscript).
This already makes a total of 23 manuscripts. There remain
uncounted the sagas of Icelanders, nos. 22, 23, 26, and Hernings
t>åttr (no. 14) ; the fornaldarsggur, nos. 42, 43, 46 and 47; two
rimur, nos. 15 and 53; and a number of minor works, nos. 9, 52,
56, 58, 62 and 63. Even if some of these were collected in one
or two codices, a total of over 26 is certainly reached.
AJ obviously borrowed most of the manuscripts used by him,
cf. his words, “leetos .... subinde possessoribus restitui” (I
154). And no more than two of the manuscripts mentioned above
(nos. 48-9, 51) can be shown to have been his personal property.
A number of the most important manuscripts seem to have be-
longed to the districts around BreicSafjorSur or to the west of
Iceland (see nos. 1-4, 15, 16, 40, 55), others to the cathedral
at Holar (nos. 33, 35-7, (39, 41), 64), but in most cases the
provenance of the manuscripts is unknown. We shall, however,
scarcely be mueh mistaken if we believe that many more ma-
nuscripts than those whose provenance we can now verify
also came to AJ from the west of the country and from those