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INTRODUCTION
(v) Verbal and substantival derivatives of ef are mostly in ‘ef-’, e.g.
‘efvanlikt’ 3vbl, ‘efvmzt’ 3va2, ‘efvaðsemð’ 7vb21, ‘efatsemð’ 78va33,
but also ‘ifvazt’ 23rb32, dat. sg. ‘ifva’ 32ral6, ‘ifvaðsemð’ 75val.
(vi) The adj. form is usually ‘heiðinglig-’, but ‘heiðinligri’ 16ral6.
(vii) Adj. ‘æzkaðr’, seen in llra34, appears infrequently attested.
(viii) Adj. eilífr always has <ei> as the first element.
(ix) The verb ját(t)a goes variously according to the first and fourth
conjugation, e.g. third sg. present ‘iataz’ 57va24; second and third sg.
pret. ‘iataðir’ 7vbl3, ‘iataði’ 49ra21, 69rb25, ‘iattaði’ 24vb39-40, past
part. ‘iattat’ 70ra22; first sg. present ‘Jatte’ 54ra34, ‘iatti’ 57vbl9,
‘iati’ 54vb29.
(x) The loan verbs ‘disputa’, 23ra8, 25rbl7, 30, ‘studia’ 70rbl3,
have these older forms.
X. S' the exemplar of S2.
In the above description it has been assumed in various contexts that
the Jóns saga text S2 is a direct copy of S'. A review of the textual and
orthographic evidence in favour of this conclusion may now be con-
venient.
Communal error is found at 40/1 where both texts have ‘Arnþrvðr’
for Arnfríör.
At 44/3 S' has the unusual abbreviation ‘fd’ for frá. S2 here has ‘faa’,
best explained as due to the influence of the deviant form in S'.
A variant in S2 appears to be a correction compounding an error of
omission in S' at 63/46-47:
S' ‘eN þv far oc <seg> þessa alla luti ... BraNdi byskupi ...’
(where the decision that seg is omitted is supported by the use of
segja in the three repeat passages 63/72-73, 80, 89)
S2 ‘eN þv fær ok þessa alla hlvti ... Brandi byskvpi ...’
As the textual notes on pp. 34-44, 51-54 reveal, S2 shows no major
deviation in word-order from the S' text. Whole lines often match, and
abbreviations and letter-forms, particularly <n>, are faithfully repro-
duced. The relatively few variants and additions that occur find no
convincing support in other recensions of Jóns saga (cf. further Hms.
I, 128/12 and n. 5 there with Hms. I, 151/31).