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INTRODUCTION
NRA Norr0ne fragmenter 57 (S3).
I. NRA Norr0ne fragmenter 57, 69, 80 and AM 169 4to.
Among the Icelandic fragments in Riksarkivet in Oslo there are three,
NRA 57, 69 and 80, which are in the same hand and, given their simi-
lar size and lay-out, from the same codex.22 NRA 57 contains part of a
Jóns saga text of the S recension, followed by the beginning of the
Sæmundar þáttr from the L recension. Variants from it are cited (as S3)
in the notes to S 1/61-4/7, and (as 57) in the notes to L 16/7-30, and the
leaf is reproduced in facsimile between pp. 60* and 61* below. Like
57, NRA 69 is a single leaf shorn across the middle and trimmed at the
bottom, with some loss of text in both places. It contains part of the
text of a St Nicholas miracle, presumably from a Nikolaus saga, and is
printed by Unger, Hms. II, 46-49; the matter but not the wording cor-
responds to Nikolaus saga I, ch. 15, Hms. II, 38/19-39/15 (cf. Niko-
laus saga II, chs. 128-31). NRA 80 consists of the top half of a shom
leaf (denoted NRA 80 (a)) and a whole leaf, shorn across the middle
and trimmed with loss of text at the top (denoted NRA 80 (b)). The
text is from Páls saga postola II and is printed by Unger, Post.,
279/25-283/23. NRA 57 and 80 have 33 lines to the page, NRA 69 has
35 (possibly 36); this may indicate that 69 appeared later in the codex
than the others. (The order might have matched the calendar sequence,
though there are large intervals between the feastdays, 23/4, 29/6,
6/12.)
Both fragments of 69 and the first fragment of 80 have a marginal
note, Nordfjord 1623, and 57 has a similar note, Nordfjord 1628.23
These provide the locality and date of the bailiff’s accounts for which
these vellum pieces were used as dockets or in bindings. Nordfjord
came under Bergenhus 1596-1660.24 It has been argued that it was the
22 P. A. Munch, Samlede Afhandlinger I (1873), 283; cf. the description by Jónas
Kristjánsson in his Skrá um íslenzk handrit í Noregi (1967), typescript in Amastofnun,
Reykjavík. For general information on NRA fragments see G. Storm, Otte brudstykker,
2-3, and Gammelnorske membranfragment, xiii-xv.
23 Cf. NRA 56, a fragment of Porgils saga skarða, marked Nordfjord 1630; repro-
duced as nr 8 in Kálund, Pal. Atlas, N.S. (1907).
24 J. Aaland, Nordfjords lensherrer og fogder (1898), 18.