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alldr-skipum’); Hand II wrote ff. 4v-31v (I 36.21-393.4 ‘TryGva-til’);
Hand III wrote ff. 32r-60v, 64ra28-64va, and 72v (II 1.1-217.12 ‘J
þenna-mun’, 265.13-273.13 ‘kongr-koma’, and 343.7-347.2 ‘Har-
alldr-Hinn’); and Hand IV wrote ff. 61r-64ra28 and 64vb-72r (II 226.7-
265.13 ‘Gekk-dana’ and 273, v.l. to 1. 13-343.7 ‘sua-En’). Hand III re-
curs in AM 325 XI 2d 4to, which is a leaf from Codex Resenianus of the
Separate Saga ofSt Olaf, and in sections of AM 325 VI 4to (see pp. LXV
ff.). The initial letters of chapters are coloured, but the titles of chapters
have not been written and the last part of the manuscript, ff. 61-72 in
Hand IV, has not been illuminated.
B is apparently not preserved in its original state. Thus it appears that
ff. 32-60, which are in Hand III, were written later than two sections in
the same hand that occur further on in the manuscript. The explanation
would seem to be that these leaves were written in place of three gathe-
rings that had been lost from the codex almost immediately after its com-
pletion. It also seems obvious that the text on ff. 61-72 was copied from
different exemplars than those used earlier on.
AM 325 VI 4to ff. 17ral3-36v are written by the same scribe as AM
54 fol. (C1)- It is very likely that 325 VI, Cod. Res. of the Saga ofSt Olaf,
AM 53 fol., and AM 54 fol. were all written at the same place. Some scri-
bal characteristics of these manuscripts-e.g. y with crossed descender, a
double accent as a mark of length over simple vowels, and ie, iæ for e, æ
after labial consonants-occur in diplomas from Húnaþing, Skagafjörður,
and Þingeyjarþing in the third and fourth quarters of the fourteenth cen-
tury. The manuscripts in question must have originated somewhere in
this area, but we do not have enough evidence to decide in which parti-
cular scriptorium they were written.
Ámi Magnússon obtained B in 1704 from Guðmundur Sigurðsson
(1651-1716) of Álftanes á Mýrum, to whom the manuscript came with
his wife Guðrún, daughter of Eggert Björnsson (1612-1681) of Skarð á
Skarðsströnd. It is probable that Eggert inherited the manuscript from his
ancestors.
AM 54 fol. together with four leaves from the same manuscript in AM
325 VIII 2d 4to and AM 325 IX la 4to (C1) is a vellum codex containing
only ÓlTr. There are 76 leaves in all, the largest measuring 31 x 22 cm.
At first the codex consisted of 13 gatherings of eight leaves, each com-
prising four bifolia; the fourteenth gathering, ff. 73-76, was added
around the year 1600. The original gatherings 6 and 7 have been com-
pletely lost, in addition to which there are lacunae in gatherings 1, 5, 9,
and 13. A total of 28 leaves is missing, so that C' originally contained