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Michael Chesnutt
vitæ et res gestæ regum, principum, et confessorum, qui Daniam, Norve-
giam, aliasque orbis arctoi provincias et regiones pietate et doctrina il-
lustrarunt, postque obitum in divorum numerum relati sunt. The first
article in the collection has the heading I. Ex Breviario dioecesis
Roschildensis. De Sancto Kanuto [+ duce, added above the line] mar-
tyre. VHldus Januar(ii). It occupies ff. 7r-llr and is here designated Rs.
Next follows II. Ex Breviario Arusiensi de eodem S. Kanuto duce et
martyre, VII. Kai. Julii, ff. llv-12r, here designated As. The collection
continues with a Historia S. Canuti ducis et martyris (ff. 12v-30r; see p.
67 below).
It can be inferred from the arrangement of Infulæ Cimbricæ that
Stephanius was interested in including as much as he could of the sto-
ry of Knud Lavard’s death but had the misfortune to start by writing
out Rs, where the Matins lessons for the Passion feast - here six in
number for the first two nocturns of a secular liturgy - focus exclu-
sively on what happened on the day of the murder (they begin without
preamble at K 307 Die altera Epiphanie). Only afterwards did he rea-
lise that the church in Århus had six quite different lessons for the
Translation feast, describing the saint’s career from his elevation to the
rank of duke (cf. K 149) to the scene where Magnus sets a trap for his
unsuspecting victim (K 291). He then copied these lessons from his
Århus breviary, taking advantage of the faet that the two sources dove-
tailed, but unable to make amends for their doing so in biographically
reverse order.
Textual variants in Rs and As are dealt with below in connection with
the printed breviaries from Roskilde and Århus respectively.
2.2.4. AM 670 c 4to (BAM) is one of eleven items brought together un-
der the number 670 4to in the Arnamagnæan Collection (cf.
KålKatAM II 83-87, no. 1669-79). Like AM 1049 4to, which was
mentioned on p. 5 above, 670 consists of hagiographical excerpts, etc.,
written by and for Åmi Magnusson. The collector’s own hånd is found
in 670 e (ff. 9-30), 670 f (ff. lv-2; annotations to ff. 3-7; ff. 10-12),
670 h-k, and part of 670 1. An unknown collaborator has shared the
writing of 670 e-f with Årni Magnusson and is solely responsible for
670 a-d and 670 g. This hånd recurs in 1049 in fascicles A, D, and pos-
sibly C as well as on ff. 5-7 of fascicle F, which Åmi Magnusson has