Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1985, Page 164

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vil (73:6) + na ad
uilldi (105:10) 4-
Rubin (125:17) Jubyn
her (126:6) 4-
ok1 (126:8) nie
upp (134:3) 4-
Many of these, if taken singly, would carry little or no weight. The
number of such occurrences is significant, however, and I do not see
how one could ascribe them all to “coincidence”. One notes that the
majority of these examples occur toward the beginning of the saga,
but a few are found even in the later part, the “addition.” It is clear,
then, that 119 and H17 are independent of one another. Given the
number of deviations from H7 which are common to both 119 and H17
(see above), there must be at least one lost intermediary (cf. Jonas
Kristjånsson, p. LVIII).
The same situation prevails for Viktors saga, although it is not at all
strange that its editor did not notice this. The number of passages
where 118 deviates from H7 while H17 (H46) preserve the latter is far
smaller than in the case of Elis saga. The following are those examples
which I have found. References are to page and line in the edition
(fn. 2).
H7, H17 118
Jja1 (15:7) M
eru bit (30:14) enn bad
wt (32:13) -
bera (39:10) -s-
huort (41:16) 4-
bat (41:21) bar
This material might not be conclusive in itself, but it does serve to
corroborate the evidence from Elis saga.
I mentioned earlier that there might be other MSS which belong to
this same group. IBR 5 fol. is certainly one such. The beginning is
missing; the text starts with the words sinn likama (4:2). Furthermore,
it follows the 119-H17 group, showing all the deviations from H7 listed
above (from menn 49:7 on, of course). Its readings agree sometimes
with 119, sometimes with H17, but it appears to be independent of
both. For example, it preserves peim (40:1), ok hinir roskuztu (40:3-4),