Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1970, Blaðsíða 327

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SUMMARY
1.0. In “Crymogæa”, Amgrimur Jonsson refers four times to a manu-
script which he calls Vatnshyma. These references concem Kjalnesinga
saga, Porbar saga hrebu and Barbar saga Snæfellsdss. GuSbrandur Vigfusson
argued that part of this manuscript finished up in Resen’s library, while
the rest, of which a few leaves later came into Ami Magnusson’s eollection,
remained in Iceland.
1.1. The relevant manuscript in Resen’s library was bumt in 1728,
but according to the printed catalogue of 1685 it contained Floamanna saga,
Laxdæla saga, Hænsa-Poris saga, Vatnsdæla saga, Eyrbyggja saga, Kjalnesinga
saga and Kroka-Refs saga, and the identification of this manuscript as a
part of Vatnshyrna may be upheld.
According to Guåbrandur Vigfusson, AM 564a 4to (and also AM 445c
4to, f. 1)—8 leaves in all—would seem to be a remnant of the part of Vatns-
hyma which had remained in Iceland. These leaves contain (fragmentary)
texts of Barbar saga Snæfellsdss, Por bar saga hrebu, Bergbua pdttr, Kumlbua
pdttr, Draumr Porsteins Sibu-Hallssonar, Viga-Olums saga and Harbar saga.
One common feature of Vatnshyma (the Resen manuscript) and 564a
is that Floamanna saga (in copies which have been considered to derive
from Vatnshyrna) and Porbar saga hrebu (in 564a) both contain genealogies
continued down to Jon Håkonarson in Vi3idalstunga and his wife, Ingileif
Amadottir. However, the two manuscripts cannot have constituted parts
of the same book, because:
1.2. From Ami Magnusson’s list of contents of the Resen-manuscript
in question, it appears that, besides the sagas named in the 1685 catalogue,
that manuscript (Membr. Res. 5, i.e. Vatnshyma) also contained Stjornu-
Odda draumr, Bergbua pdttr, Kumlbua pdttr and Draumr Porsteins Sibu-
Hallsonar. Besides, Ami has copied these pættir in AM 555h 4to and AM
564c 4to, and his exemplar was not 564a. Thus, the three last-named pættir
appeared in both Vatnshyma and 564a. The same goes for Barbar saga
and Porbar saga (see § 1.1, above), whereas there is no evidence that Vatns-
hyma contained Viga-Olums saga or Harbar saga.
2. Both Amgrimur Jonsson’s use of the Vatnshyma texts of Barbar saga
and Porbar saga and Ami Magnusson’s copies of the three pættir which also
appear in 564a demonstrate a close relationship between the texts common
to both manuscripts. Unless they were copied from a common original,
which would then have been written for J6n Håkonarson (bom 1350, died
between 1398 and 1415), 564a was probably copied from Vatnshyrna;
the reverse cannot have been the case.
3.1. AM 564a 4to is written in three related hånds, and in most respects
the writing points to a date about 1400, while a single feature, the extensive
use of r-rotunda, points rather to the middle of the 15th century.