Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.10.1967, Síða 97

85
1076 allt] om
12210 enn mier er] er mier
12215 skylldi verda suyvirdiliga leykid (utleijkid 12c)] skyllda (skylldi
922, [s]kylldi Bartholin) eg haduglega utleika
Then 922 introduces a few variants distinguishing it from the other
manuscripts, and these too are found again in Bartholin:
10318 trpllskapur 285, 109, 12c, 591] 922, Bartholin troildomur
11511 nu
12111 gista] lenda
12c and 591 each contain substantial variants which are not
repeated in Bartholin, but such is not the case with 922, and this
is unquestionably the source of Bartholin. Nonetheless there are
two respects in which Bartholin differs from 922 as it now is. The
first is that the text in 922 has been altered in various places as a
result of collations with other manuscripts, and Bartholin shows
no knowledge of these alterations but follows the original wording
of 922; the earliest possible date for these collations is 1692, too late
for Bartholin. The other is that in three places a variant has been
introduced by Bartholin:
1076 8 med — Nordurlpndum] Bartholin om
11217 hafi (hefdu 922)] hefdi
1229 enn (Jdinn] Bodvar mællti, Opinn
The first of these is a deliberate alteration omitting from the middle
of a quotation phrases which are irrelevant to what is under discus-
sion at that point in the book. The third is also intentional, fitting
the quotation into the context better. The second, restoration of
the subjunctive ending, is not significant for the manuscript origin
of the quotations in Bartholin, but it illustrates the care with which
the Icelandic has been treated in the book.
Since Bartholin’s work appeared in 1689, this must be the terminus
ante quem for 922. The course of Åmi Magnusson’s life down to this
date, and the nature of the manuscript, combine to make it most
probable that the manuscript was written specifically for Bartholin
in the few years just before 1689.
Åmi Magnusson3 arrived in Copenhagen as a student in 1683,
3 Ami Magmissons Levned og Skrifter, Copenhagen 1930, I. bind 1, pp. 8-11
(and also pp. 13-15).