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afbragd annara manna, firi afis saker. vaxtar og vænleijks, Lijtil etc.
46.2-3n - Variant “ok dregz: dregit” pertains only to “dregz”; B reads:
“ok dregit.”
46.4n - Delete variant “])inginu: uden art.”-, B reads: “\>ingin\.”
50.12 vm lidit] om.
50.15-16 Hann - seti] om.
50.16n - Note unclear and incorrect; B reads: “J?a geingv inn .xii.
menn i skalann.”
II. New Readings
There are two kinds of “ghost existence” which a number of incor-
rect readings have led for the past 135 to 205 years: either they appear
incorrectly in the editions, or else they do not appear at all. The
manuscripts are in places extremely worn, for instance 18r in A (26.1
min - 28.14 launadi), and some of the readings of faint words, often in
the beginning or end of lines, have only been made possible by strong
or special lighting techniques. The following list includes more exten-
sive comments where necessary. Again correct manuscript readings
follow a colon, whereas variant readings from B follow a bracket.
l.prol.4 lannams : lannama
This reading was reproduced correctly by Jon Eiriksson on the facsi-
mile page (p. [xxxiv]) in his edition of B (with variants), Sagan af
Gunnlaugi ormstungu ok Skalld-Rafni, sive Gunnlaugi Vermilingvis
& Rafnis Poetæ Vita (Hafniæ, 1775). According to Jon Sigurdsson,
p. xxi, n. 1, the reading “lannams” was made by Olafur Pålsson
when he collated the membrane with Stechau’s copy in Nks. 1750
4to.
5.9 vera manna : vera t-stør[r]aH . manna [B: vera størra manna]
The word is scraped out, and the reading is unsure even under ultra-
violet light.
5.17 munu : 'mun' [JS: man]
9.6,6n storeignamadr] størr rikr madr
The adjectives “størr“ and “rikr” are written as separate words.
10.4 utlondum : odrnm londum [B: odrvm løndvm]
18.10 skal : ok 'skaV [B: sk al ok]
24.15 vm : a [B: aa]
27.9 fééhirdirinn : féé hirdzlu madr
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