Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2005, Blaðsíða 333

A new manuscript of Mirmanns saga
323
11.88-9 ok bryniuna ok vndir A1; og frefallda bryniona undir A5, A7 (de-
fective A6), 124] 4 A4.
12.22-3 og fagnar honumm einkar vel A2'3; A5, A7 (defective A6), 124] 4 A4.
13.8 vanheilann A2‘3; A5'7,124] ohreinann A4.
16.15 og vera med heidnumm monnum (manni A5'7, 124) A2'3; A5'7,
124] 4 A4.
20.8-9 er fid finnist. Hann suarar fad er mer sagt ad hann sie riddari
godr (godur riddare 124) og einvigis madr mikill A2’3; A5'7, 724]
4 A4.
20.13 hialp med A2"3; A5'7, 724] 4 A4.
24.27 en hann spardi ei ord og tilmæle vid f ær (insignificant variations
in A5-7, 724) A2-3; A5'7, 724] 4 A4.
24.84 standa A2’3; at standa (after variant veita : væma) A5'7, 724] at
eiga, eda vid f ier at standa A4.
In a single case 124 agrees with A4 against the rest of the A group (cf.
Slay 1997:xlix):
10.27 glæp sinn ok *ofamat A1; sinn glæp og ofagnat A5'6 (different in
A7, on substitute page)] sinn ofagnat A4, 724.
This must, however, be regarded as coincidental. 124 is also derived
from neither A6 nor A7, since it is older than both (A6 completed 17 Feb-
ruary 1799 and A7 completed 1 October 1838). All this shows that 124
is derived neither from any member of the manuscript group A4'7 (al-
though it is closely related to them) nor from any other preserved ma-
nuscript of Mirmanns saga.
Slay finds it likely, as noted above, that the common original of A4-7
(x) was derived from A1. This means that A4'7 are secondary in those
parts of Mirmanns saga where A1 is used as the main text of the A ver-
sion. On the other hånd A4‘7 are derived from neither A2 nor A3 and there-
fore have some textual value in those chapters where A' is defective
(chapters ll89-2640), especially where A2 and A3 are lacking (chapters
2494/95-2640, pp. 124-46 in the edition).12
12 Slay (1997:xlvii): “Innovations in A2 are listed on pp.XXXIV-XXXV. In half of them,
including the more significant instances such as l20'1, l23,24'5 and 735'6, A4-A7 agree exact-
ly or essentially with A1, and in the bulk of the remainder A4-A7 have variants of their
own. [...] Similarly, in more than half of the many places where A3 has an innovation
(pp.XXXVI-XXXVII), A4-A7 agree with A‘, and in the great majority of the remainder
they have variants of their own. They agree with A3 only in 228, 47 and 821, and partially in
230, 721 and 1176; coincidence is a sufficient explanation.”