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4606-"8 Cf. Sggubrot, Sggur Danak. p. 13.
46010 Helenam: She is named Blæja in the Fattr af Ragnars-
sonum and in Olafs saga Tryggvasonar; the name in AJ is pos-
sibly due to confusion with her father’s name Ella.
46o21-25 On the relationships see note to I 3542, where we
assumed that AJ used Skjgld. as his source. In what follows AJ’s
use of Skjgld. is obvious, and here we have a parallel text in
Sggubrot (p. 15 ff.).
460“ in campo Bravøll vel Bravelse: The latter form is from
Vedel's Saxo-translation. Olrik (Aarb. 1894, p. 146) decided
that AJ did not know the account of the battie of Bravellir, as
we have it in Sggubrot, thinking that his manuscript was defec-
tive at this point. This is doubtful however, see the next note.
Furthermore, it is very probable that AJ left out the compara-
tively long account of the battie on purpose, not least because
Saxo also gives a detailed description of it.
46o30-46i21 See Sggubrot pp. 154~7 and 2430-2510.—Olrik
(Aarb. 1894, pp. 146—7) thought that AJ had as his source only
a text corresponding to this second passage in Sggubrot; the first
must have heen lacking in AJ’s manuscript because it occurs im-
mediately before the description of the battie of Bravellir (cf.
preceding note). Further, Olrik maintained that AJ here had the
same text as is found in Sggubrot.—Both of these conclusions are
wrong. 1) AJ gives 4615 Alfheimur as the home of the Alfr-
family. The same is found (in the form Alfheimar) in Sggubrot,
157, but it is not mentioned there 24—25. 2) At 155 Sggubrot says
that Alfhildr vrås the daughter of King Alfr, but at 25® that the
whole family was descended from Alfr gamli; finally, “Gandalfs
synir” are described as SigurSr hringr’s “mågar” 2 5 26. AJ, on
the other hånd, says that Alfhildr was ‘proneptis’ of Alfr enn
gamli (I 46031). This agrees with the genealogy of the Alfr-
family in Flat. I 26: “Alfr konungr hinn gamli réS fyrir Alf-
heimum. Hann var faSir Alfgeirs, fgSur Gandalfs, fgSur Alf-
hildar”. As Olrik has pointed out, this shows that Sggubrot is
mistaken in its first reference to Alfhildr. But it is equally clear
that AJ was familiar with the correct genealogy. Now, it might
be thought that AJ knew it from Flat., cf. the genealogical
table I 165, but this is contradicted by the faet, pointed out above