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individual readings which may well depend on corrections made
in the author’s autograph after A and the original of C had been
copied from it. At II 23411 B alone has the correct ‘jøkul vocant’,
whilst AC have ‘jokull vocatur’, which does not agree with the
opening of the sentence; the correction can either have been
made in the autograph manuscript after the original of C was
copied or be due to the scribe of B.—24226 after the words “pri-
mo excepto” B adds “nomine Arnhaldo vel Arnoldo”. Strangely
enough, the form Arnoldus is not otherwise found in B (which
has Arnhaldus or Arnholdus), but both forms appear in A.—
24319’24,27 B adds the years in which the bishops named died, but
they are lacking in AC. These dates are also added in Specimen,
see note to II 24319, whether they were first included there or
in AJ’s autograph copy of Gronlandia. Other alterations which
appear only in B are quoted in the variants to II 2305, 2321,
23320. 23512, 24I5-22, 24316, 25322, 25410, 2579, 2649.—It cannot
of course be proved that the alterations under discussion are
derived from AJ’s autograph copy, but in some cases it is true
to say that this is the most likely explanation. It is moreover an
explanation which accords well with the hypothesis advanced
above concerning the chronological sequence of the copies.
It follows from this investigation that a reading found in two
of the three manuscripts ABC must in all probability have been
in the author’s autograph manuscript, and it is on this principle
that the text of the present edition has been in the main establ-
ished (see below).
4. The use made of Gronlandia by later writers and the pre-
sent edition. AJ himself used parts of Gronlandia in two of his
later works. In Anatome he gives a brief summary of certain
sections, II 33733~3393, and in Specimen several passages are re-
produced, in part verbatim, see III 33227~3403S, 34iS7-34227 and
notes. In neither book does he refer to Gronlandia as an inde-
pendent work; when he wrote Specimen he had undoubtedly
given up all hopes of getting Gronlandia printed. Ole Worm,
who knew of the work’s existence from references in Crymogæa,
asked I>orlakur Skulason in a letter in 1623 to obtain Gronlandia
for him, but iPorlåkur answered in the same year that AJ did not