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Jon Helgason
78,5 hann - mikill M K, om. i, 463/560.
78,11-12 atti1 - buriSi M, similarly K, om. 1463/560.
78,14 broSer boroddz (bordar K) i Oluosi M K, om. 1463/560.
78,30 Bofiuars M K, sonar s(ins) 1463/560.
78,40 let... lokreckiuna M K, lavk ... hurdunni i, liet... hurdina
463/560.
78,53-54 spretti fra lokunni M, spirnde fra lokunne K, let fra lokvna i
463/560.
Such correspondences are so frequent that there can be no doubt that i
belongs to the same class as 463/560. A different matter is that i often
agrees with M and K against 463/560. In such cases i must have re-
tained an original B-class reading that has been altered in the branch of
the stemma to which 463 and 560 belong. Finally, and not unexpected-
ly, t has some divergent readings of its own.
Conversely, it must be due to coincidence that M and i occasionally
agree against K and 463/560:
75,41 ok - gotuna M i, om. K 463/560.
75,44 hlifaz M i, hlifa idr K 463/560.
75,69 sotti M i, for K 463/560.
75,71 en - sialft (sialfur i) M i, om. K 463/560.
77,16-17 at borøar M, til bordar i, om. K 463/560.
K and i against the rest is such a rare constellation that it can be left out
of account.
§8.
We tum now to yet another seventeenth-century paper manuscript, AM
458 4to. Åmi Magnusson obtained from Jon Einarsson of Holar (d.
1707) a collection of sagas with the following inscription by Bishop
borlåkur Skulason: “bessa Sogu Bok a eg Thorlakur Skulason Anno
1641. Thorlakur Skulason Egh.” Åmi took the collection apart and dis-
tributed it in four numbers: AM 380 4to (Hungrvaka), 404 4to (Laur-
entius saga), 446 4to (Eyrbyggja saga), and 458 4to (Egils saga). The
book was undoubtedly commissioned by Bishop borlåkur and probably
completed in the year stated: the bishop would have signed his name in
it when it was new (see further Byskupa SQgur [now = Editiones Ama-