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during his imprisonment and like Rugman he made scholarly use of his
stay. He got hold of several manuscripts65 in addition to making some
transcripts himself.
Sparfwenfeldt was abroad for five years and on his way home in 1682
he stopped off in Copenhagen. There he made contact with philolo-
gists and obtained several manuscripts.66 He himself transcribed Yngl-
inga saga from Jdfraskinna and also made use of Kringla. He had skilied
help in this task from an Icelander, EorSur horkelsson Vidalin. This
transcript (R 685) is dated Copenhagen, March 1682, and was there-
fore made only a few months before the manuscripts were loaned to
Torfæus. After his stay in Copenhagen Sparfwenfeldt travelled home
to Sweden. boråur borkelsson was an Icelandic student who is men-
tioned by Dal in his Specimen biographicum as one of those who helped
Jon Eggertsson to collect manuscripts. Here he is called “rector Scholæ
Scalholtinæ, Thordo Thorlacius, nepos Arngrimi Jonæ” (‘headmaster
of the school in Skålholt, hordur Thorlacius, grandson of Arngrimur
Jonsson’, Dal 1724: fol. Q3).67
65 He acquired at least the law manuscripts Holm.perg. 11 fol anåperg.32 4to, and per-
haps also Bergsbok as Godel and Schtick believe. Steinnes thinks that Bergsbok came
to Sweden with Seefeld’s library, because a translation by Jørgen Seefeld’s amanu-
ensis Påll Hallsson is based on Bergsbok (1962:30). According to a personal commu-
nication from Olafur Halldorsson, the exemplar for this translation was, however,
a secondary copy of Bergsbok. The vellum itself does not, then, necessarily have to
have been in Denmark.
66According to his own inscription in the manuscript, he acquired Holm.perg. 8
8vo from Jon Eggertsson. Otherwise he acquired at least Holm.papp. 100 I fol,
Holm.papp. 14 8vo and Rål 22 8vo.
67 The name Thorlacius is probably due to confusion with the contemporary bishop
t>or8ur Porlåksson (1637—1697, bishop from 1672), who called himself Thorlacius.
t>6r5ur Porkelsson was rector of the school in Skålholt 1688—90 and was the grand-
son of Arngrimur Jonsson, so there is no doubt that he is indeed the person con-
cerned (see Louis-Jensen 1994: 523, note 22).