Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.10.1967, Blaðsíða 237

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The first two lines are reproduced by Kålund in the Amamagnæan
Catalogue—he suggests the reading D for the doubtful letter, but
this looks less likely under ultra-violet light, and no Gunnar whose
father’s name began with D is known to have been living at this
time* 2. The reading G is confirmed by the faet that there is only
one man whose family corresponds with the details here—he is
Gunnar Gislason, logsagnari å ViSivollum in Skagaf jarbarsysla, who
lived from 1528 until 1605. He had eight children, five of whom
bore the names mentioned in the note3. Of the other three, Gisli
died young, when a student in Germany, and may already have
been dead when the note was written, and the other two, GuSrun
and Stefån, were both illegitimate, which would be a good reason
for omitting them. The figures in the note fit in with the dates we
should expect to arrive at by eonsidering other evidence—it has,
for example, been calculated that Pétur Gunnarsson was born
about 15704—according to our note he was bom in 1568 or 1569.
From all this, there can be very little doubt that Gunnar Gislason
was the owner of the Ms. in 1589.
Another peculiarity of the Ms. is the large number of signatures
added at various points among the spaces left between entries in
the calendar. There are no fewer than 12 of these, of which I have
been able to read nine, although two of these without certainty,
and all give the name Amgrimur Hrolfsson. Only one man of this
name is known, and he was syslumadur in E>ingeyj arving from 1685
until his death in 17005. His date of birth is not known, but the
entry in this Ms. under July 26th:
a The reeords I have used consistently are:
“Syslumannaæfir, eptir Boga Benediktsson å StaOarfelli”, Reykjavik, 1881-
1932 (5 Vols.), commonly abbreviated to Smæ.
“fslenzkar æviskrår”, by Påll Eggert (3lason, Reykjavik, 1948-52, (5 Vols.),
commonly abbreviated to tÆ.
“Prestatal og profasta å Islandi”, by Sveinn Nielsson, 2nd. ed., Reykjavik,
1949-51, hereafter referred to as “Prest”.
“Logréttumannatal”, by Emar Bjamason, Reykjavik, 1952-5, hereafter re-
ferred to as “LOg”.
3 Smæ. 1: 353-9, tÆ. 2:201, Log. p. 203.
4 Log. p. 442.
6 Smæ. 1:110, tÆ. 1:28-9.