Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1991, Blaðsíða 205
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To the GS manuscripts listed above Lbs. 714 8vo can be added. The
manuscript consists of 113 leaves (fol. 74, an inserted leaf, is blank) and
was written probably at the end of the eighteenth century. The tide
page, written in a different hånd than the rest of the manuscript, has
the heading »Nockrar Helgar Historiur og Æfintyr til Frddleiks og
Skémtunar beim er slijkt gyrnast« and contains a list of contents:
Innehalld Bdkarinnar. / 1. Bamdéms Sagan Iesu Vors. / 2. Umm Efni og
Uppruna Krosstriesins. / 3. Ætter Israels og Straff beirra er Jes(um) pijndu / 4.
Utmålun Christi Grafar. / 5. Umm MariuGrøf, / 6. Umm Lifnad og Afganngbeirra
H(eiløgu) Manna / hvørra Messudagar eru innfærdir i vor Rijm. / 7. Draimur
Kvinnu Pilati. / 8. Saga af ludas Ischarioth. / 9. Einn fåheyrdur Tilburdur. / 10.
Ævinntyr af Stulku er gaf sig D(iøflenum). / 11. Ein hryggeleg Fråsaga. / 12.
Tijdinde sem skiedu i Danmørk. / 13. af Asvero Gydingi. / 14. Ævintyr af
kross(inum), Drotming(unni) af Saba / og k6ng Salomone. / 15. af Herodes
Ascalonita. / 16. umm Herodem Antipas - Agrip/pa og Neronem. / 17. af
Pilato - og 2 Brief bar med. / 18. af Ioseph og Asnath.5
On the first two leaves of the manuscript there are some doodles
including »M [or possibly H] Th S 1798 No 65«, »Jon Gisla son«,
»Margretjons DotteraStoru Hvalsaabessa Bok...«, and »Gisle Andres
son a Hvals a abessa Bok...... The three last mentioned names are also
found on the last page but are here associated with the farm-name
Kolbitså. Both farms are in Strandasysla.6 According to Jon Gudnason
(Strandamenn: Æviskrdr 1703-1953 [Reykjavik, 1955], pp. 109, 129,
268), Gisli Andrésson (1799-1837) was the son af Andrés Gudmunds-
son in Hladhamar, later in Kolbeinså (— Kolbitså). Gisli was a farmer in
Kolbeinså 1828-1829, in Kjorseyri 1829-1833, and then in Stora-
5 The stories »Saga af ludas Ischarioth« (no. 8) and »umm Herodem Andpas -
Agrippa og Neronem« (no. 16) bear no relation to GS.
6 See Mariane Overgaard, ed., The History of the Cross-Tree down to Christ’s Passion.
Edidones Amamagnæanæ, Ser. B:26 (Copenhagen, 1968), p. LI.