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are the feasts of the Icelandic saints, and, besides, 9/6 Columbe abb.
cf., 13/7 Margarete v. m. (20/7 in Nidaros), 7/12 Ambrosii cf.
Most of the entries in the Icelandic calendar which represent
additions to the Nidaros Ordinary are of thirteenth-century date. A
useful witness to that effect is the Icelandic liturgical calendar AM
249c fol. (see Kålund, AM 1, pp. 226-27, dated too early), written in
the late thirteenth century. Åmi Magnusson’s note attached to it says
that it was prefixed to a ‘mutilo Talterio Latino å Skardi å Skardz-
strond’, which he received as a gift in 1708. As pointed out by J.
Lorkelsson (op. cit., pp. 27 sqq.), the calendar was, however, a late-
comer to Skar6. An analysis of the obits, entered c. 1400, points to the
great family of Oddi and its ramifications. As regards the size,
disposition, and rubrication, this calendar has much in common with
the more recent AM 249p = A. See Plate 66.
However, unlike AM 249p, AM 249c is really two documents in
one. At the line-ends of each day, a cisiojanus runs parallel with the
calendar.2 It contains in the line for 12 September the tell-tale syllable
sus, i.e. the local Nidaros feast of the Susceptio Sanguinis Domini,
not found in the Icelandic calendar, and represents the calendar of
Nidaros proper of the late thirteenth century. The saints’ feasts in the
cisiojanus not found in the Nidaros Ordinary are: 4/4 Ambrosii, 16/4
Magni, 28/5 Germani (Parisien.), 7/7 Transi. Thome Cant., 17/7
Alexis, 31/7 Germani (Autissiodoren.), 12/9 Susceptio sanguinis
Domini, 15/9 Oct. S. Marie, 4/10 Francisci, 8/10 Demetrii, 13/10
Reliquiarum, 11/12 Victorici (et Fusciani), 14/12 Nichasij, 23/12
Thorlaci.
The Icelandic calendar, main hånd, includes these feasts with the
exception of 28/5 Germani, 17/7 Alexis, 12/9 Susceptio Sanguinis,
and 11/12 Victorici. (It also includes 16/11 Edmundi Cantuarien.
aep., canonized 1247, who belongs to the Nidaros calendar, but is not
represented in the Nidaros cisiojanus.) The numerous late-medieval
additions to this calendar, of Nidaros feasts and of feasts proper to
Iceland, do not concem us here.
The calendar as well as the cisiojanus contain 16/4 Magni ducis m.,
while neither has 13/12 Transi. Magni ducis. Both feasts appear in
our five calendars. As mentioned above (see p. 53), the December
2 Ed. O. Odenius, Cisiojani Latini. Neue Beitråge zur Bibliographie der metrischen
Kalendarien des Mittelalters: Arv 15 (Uppsala 1960), pp. 94-97 (MS Q).