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149
S46. From 87r.l5 to 101v.30 (item 7) is 29,5 pages. 1 O page therefore
= [29,5:2,8=] 10,5 pages in S46.
The average of the two figures we have arrived at for the ratio of O
pages to S46 pages is 1:10,8. We can now calculate where in O
Bevers saga began. All three figures for the ratio will be used: the
lowest, the highest and the average.
From the beginning of the saga in S46 (82r.20) to item 7 (101v.30)
is 39,3 pages. Item 7 in O is on p. 153.37 or, expressed mathemati-
cally, p. 152,8. Bevers saga in O therefore began between: [p.
152,8-t-(39,3: 10,5)=] p. 149,1, i.e. ^ of the way down p. 150, and
[p. 152,8-^-(39,3:11,1 )=] p. 149,3, i.e. ^ of the way down p. 150,
while the result based on the average is [p. 152,8-r(39,3:10,8)=] p.
149,2, i.e. s of the way down p. 150. Bevers saga therefore seems
to have begun at the top of p. 150 (fol. 75v.) and not on fol. 77 as
suggested by Godel (GodOS, 373), but some space may well have
been taken up by a title.
II. I vent s saga and Mirmants saga.
Citations from O in F.d.9 after the last item for Bevers saga
continue as laid out below. The entries for 0157-60 can, with one pos-
sible exception, item 9, be identified in JV’s copy of Ivents saga in
S 46. Ivents saga cannot, therefore, have come before Bevers saga in O
as it should have done according to the list in Verelius’s Index (see p.
140 above). The page references in brackets are to Foster Blaisdell’s
forthcoming edition, Ed AM B1821.
3.
F.d.9 p. 157. S46
Rutz horn. 3r. 13-14 riitzhom (10.28)
Munni laug. 3v.21 munnlaug (13.27) 3v.27-28 munnlauginnj (13.30) (munnlauginni 15.21 munnlaugina 24.27)
p. 158. klefa. 7r.2 klefva (31.24)
p. 159.
21 I am very grateful to Foster Blaisdell for allowing me to use his text of Ivents saga
in page-proof and to consult his introduction to the edition in typescript.