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Jon Helgason
45,43 kom E(gill) heim W] Jja er liost var, pa sau menn at Eigill la
j rtime slnu.
45,60 for W] giorpi bratt heimanferd (ferd 145) sina.
45,67-68 sakir pin W] fyrer saker bænar finnur.
46,9 mikil W] + pegar a landit upp.
46,31 -32 peim W] + oc giorjoist [rar miott j mille, [rar (il er lykkia vard
a (cf. K; EgFJ, p. 141,4-5 v.l.). - Finnur Jonsson fails to
mention that M/. 78r begins with the last word fa).
In general there is little difference between the text from i) that Finnur
Jonsson uses to fill the first part of the second lacuna and the text of the
copies derived from M (as an example may be noted EgEA I, p. 97, i>
line 105 konungi, where M [here JS 28 fol.] ch. 56,146 adds ok drottn-
ingu). But as soon as Finnur Jonsson begins to use W the difference in-
creases, e.g. at these places:
56,190
56,207-11
56,230
56 (57),235
56 (57),247-48
56 (57),255
pik W] kongSRiki.
heim. pa m(ælti) hann vi5 E(gil). Gakk [ru nu a skip Jritt ok
Jrltt foroneytl ok verSit fbrottu. ok verit y5r W] hver sem
akafazt til si'ns heimilis. Bypi nu einginn annars. Sipan
giekk Arinbiorn a skip sitt ok mællte til Eigils. Gakk pu nu a
(til 145) skiitu er her liggur a vtborda langskipinu ok ver a
brottu sem skiotazt. Fared vmm nætur sem pier meigit, enn
ei vm daga, oc forded ydur.
pa W] ok er peir komu til strandar.
verit W] + Voru peir pa a brottu.
Ketill<.) hann uar hir5ma6r Eir(iks) kongs W] Kietill
haudur, hann var hirdmadur Eiriks, vpplendskur madur ad
ætt 28, Kietell vpplendskur madur(.) hann var hirdmadur
kongs 145.
liost uar or5it uarla W] traudt var dagad.
Most variants like these have the characteristics one might expect of the
A-redaction, namely that the text consistently has more words and is
more detailed than that of B (W). In the majority of places where K has
additions as compared with 8 or W (cf. the variant apparatus in EgFJ),
similar additions appear in 28 and 145 though only a few of them are
noted above.
Egils saga appeared in print for the first time at Hrappsey in 1782.
“Den er trykt efter en dårlig afskrift af 132 og har ingen selvstændig
værd [It is printed from a poor copy of 132 (= MoSruvallabok) and has