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a manuscript of the S-redaction. Before making his final revision
he got Hauksbok on loan from Ari Magnusson and then perhaps
excerpted some minor details from the beginning of Landnama.
After that he gave up further work on the vellum and passed it
on to Bjorn a SkarSså, who compiled Sk from H and S. In return
Bjorn let AJ have a copy of Sk, on the basis of which and at the
latest in the winter 1636-7 AJ made the final revision of his
text, although without altering the original sequence of his
chapters.
It is more difficult to make any definite pronouncement on the
manuscript of S which formed the basis for AJ’s first draft of
Specimen. As we know, Bjorn å SkarSså used for his compilation
the only known vellum of S, the original of AM 107 fol. (the
Resenian manuscript; it came into the University Library in Co-
penhagen with P. H. Resen’s collection and was destroyed in the
fire of 1728). The question is whether AJ used the same vellum
or another manuscript since lost.
AJ has a number of readings which agree with S against the
other redactions. Apart from the correspondences noted above
on p. 428, reference may be made to the notes to III 18527, 18629,
18715, i8917>28-31, I9327, 1976, 20115, 20226, 20317, 20419, 20931,
2107, 2I 226'29, 2I37'14, 2I421, 2I736, 2I914-15, 22018-19, 2 2 22’4,
24117, 24412, 24721-27, 25311, 2563>33, 25713, 26022.—These read-
ings do not however prove that AJ used the Resenian vellum,
though they suffice to show that his manuscript corresponded to
it in numerous details. Now, AJ’s text also includes a great many
readings which are not found in any of the extant Landn.-redact-
ions; these are given in the notes and will not be listed here.
Most of these readings are obvious errors or corruptions, and a
large number of them are undoubtedly due to AJ himself. On the
other hånd, the derivation of some of them from AJ’s manu-
script of S cannot be dismissed. It is possible especially to pick
out three kinds of readings which point to this derivation (cf.
notes to instances cited) : 1) In some cases AJ gives two variants
of names and the like, only one of which is known from the ex-
tant manuscripts, see III 17920 Suavari, alias Ævari filius; 18315
numero XII. al. X.; 19714 Valtormi F., al. Vætormi F.; 21127
Thorhaddus, al. Thoroddus; 24725 Pårdur (al. Hrålffur) ; 2531