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nastarum et regum Daniæ on pp. 73-75 is printed from AM 864 4to (S')
with variants from GKS 2449 4to (S2) and AM 862 4to (S3). The text on
pp. 75.17-82 is from AM 111 fol. (L') with variants from AM 568 4to, nr.
22-23 (L2). The text on pp. 83-85.10 is from AM 770c e 4to (G') with va-
riants from the following four manuscripts: IB 278b 8vo (G2), Papp. fol.
nr 64 (G3), AM 779b 4to (G4), and AM 568 4to nr. 22 (G5). Next follow
texts that do not derive from any manuscript of OlTr but are parallel to
texts in that saga, viz. Þorvalds þáttr víðfyrla, printed on pp. 85.11-95.23
from AM 552ka 4to, and RQgnvalds þáttr ok Rauðs, printed on pp.
95.24-102 from AM 557 4to. In conclusion, pp. 103-105 contain text pa-
rallel to chapters 7-9 of ÓlTr interpolated in two manuscripts of the
Great Saga of St Olaf, the main text is printed from AM 73a fol. (H')
with exhaustive variants from AM 78a fol. (H2) and occasional referen-
ces to AM 71 fol. (h3) and AM 76a fol. (h4).
Of the manuscripts mentioned above only A, C2, C9, and D2 are preser-
ved without lacunae, and of these only C2 contains the saga in its entire-
ty. A lacks the portion of text that was on the missing leaf of the source
manuscript, C9 was likewise copied from a defective source, and in D2
some of the saga excerpts in the source have been replaced by text from
independent saga manuscripts.
Primary Manuscripts
AM 61 fol. (A) is a vellum manuscript of 132 leaves, the largest measu-
ring 30.4 x 23.5 cm. There are 17 gatherings in the manuscript, all origi-
nally of eight leaves except the seventh (ff. 48-53), which is of six leaves.
In the eleventh gathering leaves 3 and 6 were originally singletons, but
all the other gatherings seem to have been wholly made up of bifolia. The
first and last gatherings now have only seven leaves each: leaf 7 in the
first gathering is a singleton but was probably conjoint with a blank leaf
that has been cut out of the front of the manuscript, while leaf 1 in the last
gathering is a singleton that was originally conjoint with a leaf that has
been cut out at the back. The last three gatherings are younger than the
rest, and were probably written about the middle of the fifteenth century
to replace gatherings that had been lost. The text begins on f. lv and is
written in double columns; with very few exceptions there are 38 lines
per column. The manuscript is in a wooden binding not younger than ap-
proximately the middle of the seventeenth century.
AM 61 fol. comprises ÓlTr (ff. lv-75r) and the so-called Separate
Saga of St Olaf both of these texts were edited from this manuscript in