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words: modir, brodir, systir, fadir, e g ‘brodur’ (for nom.) 62.9, ‘mod-
ur’ (for nom.) 95.8, 180.14, ‘dottur’ (for nom.) 40.1, 180.15, and ‘dott-
er’ (for gen.) 199.1, 214.4, ‘sister’ (for gen.) 199.1. Similarly, ‘Audur’
(for dat. Audi) 2.21. This feature occurs also with ‘[rerrer’ (for acc.
ferri) 163.16 and the name ‘Porer’. Apart from the (non-classical) gen-
itive ‘Porerz’, this name is treated as if it were indeclinable. Sturla is of-
ten, but not always, treated as if it had -i in the nom. and -a in the
oblique cases e g 194.3, 198.6, 8. The forms in this paragraph were
common at the time.
‘hinv’, weak form of fem. acc. sing. of hinn, is used at 192.13 rather
than hina.
III. Additional entries
There are a number of additions, in various hånds. Several of them are
almost certainly in the hånd of séra PorSur Jonsson of Hitardalur. Séra
PorSur’s son Porsteinn copied Z into a manuscript that became AM 447
4to and his father then wrote into it readings from Melabok (M).13 It is,
therefore, very likely that fB 180 8vo was at one time in the hånds of
PorSur Jonsson. Yet the additions that he inserted in it are not found in
447, and must have been put in after Porsteinn had done the copying.
Their textual status is in doubt and they may represent intelligent guess-
es where the text was unsatisfactory. The following is a list of additions
and alterations probably by PJ, though in the case of the very brief entr-
ies this cannot be certainly known. Reference is made to page and line
in the manuscript (Z) and to chapter and line in AM 447 4to, now ac-
cessible in my edition of Eyrbyggja saga. (As a touchstone for the in-
clusion or omission of the additions (not all of which were by PJ), re-
course was had to 447.)
Z 2.2 høfdingi added (cf447,1.18)
Z 3.29 huytu underlined, himu added (cf447,1.25)
Z 18.30 [reir added in margin with an insertion mark (cf447,10.27)
Z 25.5 og added in margin with an insertion mark (cf447,13.27)
Z 29.6 hun added in margin with an insertion mark (cf447,14.33)
Z 56.18 jnn til bulans hofda underlined, [rangad er sijdan heiter kbtlu
hamar vid osinn added in margin (cf447, 23.51)
13 See my edition of Eyrbyggja saga, p. 123*-24*.