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INTRODUCTION
(iii) Fol. 14v, writ large between the columns: ‘Þórmodur Thórfason
med eiginhende hefur þetta skrifad’. So Þormóður who described 234
to Ámi Magnússon also left his name in it. Árni once wrote of him:
Um Þormod Torfason er vi'st, ad hann opt, af rælne, skrifadi hans
nafn a bækur, sem honum eckert vidkomu ... (Opuscula IV, 272).
As noted earlier, Þormóður was at school in Skálholt 1646-54.
(iv) Fol. 27r. ‘Gunnar Eyreksson’. A Gunnar Eiríksson, who was
born c. 1678 and died in 1707, was at school in Skálholt in the 1690s;
in 1703 he was living at his parental home, Lundur in Lundarreykja-
dalur (ÍÆ II, 200-01). Fol. 27 went missing between Thomas Bartho-
lin’s loan of AM 234 fol. in 1687 andÁrni Magnússon’s acquisition of
the codex in 1699; it came into the latter’s possession in Iceland after
1702. That fits well with Gunnar’s school-time at Skálholt.
(v) Fol. 30v. ‘Oddur Joonsson Egh’. Oddur Jónsson (c. 1653-99)
was at school in Skálholt before c. 1670; after working for Bishop
Þórður Þorláksson he was appointed teacher at the Skálholt school in
1680 and then served as resident priest of the cathedral church 1683-
88 (ÍÆ IV, 15).
(vi) Fol. 76r. ‘Aúsger Jonsson’; and in the same hand: ‘Mynn Goodj
Vyn ave vive vale’. This was presumably addressed to Þormóður
Torfason’s well-known amanuensis, Ásgeir Jónsson (c. 1657-1707),
who matriculated from the Skálholt school in 1679 (ÍÆ I, 91-92).
(vii) Fol 80v. ‘geirmundur i skulld Jons ... tungu ...’ This Geir-
mundur is unidentified. It is a relatively uncommon name; Jón and the
place-name Tunga (if that is what we have here) are not. It may be not-
ed that in 1703 a Geirmundur Sveinsson, then aged 50, was húsbóndi
at Hörgsholt in Hrunamannahreppur, not far from Skálholt (Manntal,
535).
(viii) Fol. 81v. ‘Jon Erlingsson’. This is perhaps Jón Erlingsson
(1668-1707) who became parson at Olafsvellir (Árnesprófastsdæmi)
in 1692 (ÍÆ III, 106). He had presumably been at school in Skálholt,
like his younger brother, sr. Hannes (ÍÆ II, 307-08).
(ix) Fol. 81v. ‘Arne Torvaldsson’. Unidentified.
(x) Fol. 65v, between the columns in a large book-hand: