Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2003, Page 67
Liturgy of St Knud Lavard - Introduction
53
gladium suum
et precinxit se uirtute,
inuasores regni
dissipat, etc.
gladium suum
et precinxit se virtute<.)
inuasores regni Datie
dissipat, etc.
gladium suum.
Inuasores regni
dissipat, etc.
A cannot be dependent on S because it preserves original text omitted
in that source. This applies not only to the above passage, where A has
the words et precinxit se virtute (= K 150; not present in S), but also to
the very important locus K 259 tam a primis (+ quam a nouissimis A),
where K exhibits a haplography and S lacks the relevant clause alto-
gether (cf. VSD 206); this latter instance, supported by other superior
readings of A at 158 exactores, 184 suscipitur, consensu, and 288 con-
sanguinitate also excludes the dependence of A on K. S for its part can-
not be dependent on A, for it continues to the very end of the Passion
story while A breaks off arbitrarily with Magnus’s treacherous invitation
to the saint (cf. K 290-91 diffinire ualeamus). As far as I can see, the to-
tality of the variants listed in Appendix I, no. 1 (including the examples
just mentioned and the shared readings of A and S already cited in sec-
tion 4.2.2, to which may here be added their common omissions at K
159-72, 255-58, 258-59, etc.) in no way contradicts the hypothesis that
a common intermediary independent of K - presumably a Jutlandic
redaction of the material (*z) - lies behind the breviaries of Århus and
Schleswig. On the other hånd, the many private readings of A and S sug-
gest that this common intermediary was at all events not the immediate
source of the existing printed books.
The extract from an Århus breviary by Stephanius (As, cf. section
2.2.3 above) has a few readings that differ from A, viz. at K 153, 182,
184, 197, 269, and omissions at K 258, 259. All of these variants could
be due to the copyist but it is not out of the question that he had another
exemplar than A itself. Using *x to designate a form of the liturgy an-
tecedent to both *z and K, we may visualise the relationship between the
Århus, Schleswig, and Ringsted texts as follows:
*x
*z
K
A(AS)
S