Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1960, Side 155

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og Peirra | Frægdaruerkumm Sem f>eir Hafa Wnnid hi | Hier J
Jflande og Annar ftadar Wmrø Heimum af firre | Alldarmpnnumm
Samannsettar og skrifadar mpmuirø \ Til gamans og dægrastitt-
ijngar med frijdu hånd- | verki og fullum kostnadi sem enn sier |
merki til æ, medal vor |
Og Er (Pe)fse Saug(u) Bok | Eigen Eign Er(u)[ve]rdug[s Hey]-
dur[s] | (Ma)ns [Jons] E[y](o)l(fs)Sonar ........ | .........
Forl(ag)[e?J og.....hans ... | o(g?).............|...........|
............ | Anno: MDCLXX
It is to be remarked that in 1002 the owner’s patronymic is
conjectural, though the first letter is certainly E, not G as Kålund
supposed. However this name can be supplied with confidence from
1003; there the 1 is fortunately quite clear (thus debarring names
like Einar, Eggert, Eysteinn, etc.), and the available space and the
parts of some of the other letters which can also be discerned make
the reading given above quite certain.
A few words are also necessary about the date 1667 in 1002. The
third digit, was in doubt for a long time; but it now seems certain
that it is a 6 although written differently from the immediately
preceding one. Whereas the first 6 was formed by making a down
stroke on the left, then a shorter down stroke on the right and
finally a v-shaped connecting stroke across the bottom, the second
6 (which was not so firmly written) was formed by one stroke of
the pen in an anti-clockwise direction, in just the opposite of the
customary manner today. The only other example of such a 6
known to the present writer is in a manuscript of this period now
in Stockholm, Papp. 4to nr 17, f. 253v, in the date 1650.
The Jon Eyjélfsson of Muh (also known as Eyvindarmuli) for
whom these manuscripts were written is not a man well-known to
history, but it is possible to identify him, to see who his family were.
Some of them were quite distinguished. In Syslumannaæfir vol. IV,
p. 444, we find a Jon, the son of Eyjolfur Eiriksson of Muli and
Pordis Eyjolfsdottir Halldorssonar (id. p. 426). Like his father and
grandfather before him, and his son and grandson after him, Jon
Hved at Muh (id. p. 444, note 2). His mother was the daughter of
a syslumaQur; on his father’s side his great-grandfather was the well-
known Eyjolfur i Dal, who married Helga, a daughter of Bishop
Opuscula. —10