Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Síða 117
THE S RECENSION
75*
125* below shows that there are reasons to associate the origin of the
L recension with Þingeyrar in the 1320s.
Features common to the scribes of 169, including of course Hand V,
the copyist of the NRA fragments, firmly indicate a time not later than
c. 1350 as the period of their training and activity (cf. Unger, Hms. I,
xv, on NRA 69; Kálund, AMKat. I, 445). The chief points in favour of
this view are: the general retention of <a) spellings in the combination
vá; the total absence of the <aa> ligature and the use of <aa> for á re-
stricted to the réttarbót text; the absence or extreme rarity of any sign
of alteration in the quality of é (again best attested in the réttarbót
text) or of any vowel before ng, of the svarabhakti, of palatal g and k
before æ, of the use of analogical initial v in forms like ‘vorðit’ and
‘vunnu’; the spreading use of <d> for ð, absence of lenition except in
ð/t endings and no more than a tendency to observe the ð-t and t-ð
rule; the restricted use of <t>; all these accompanied by some uncer-
tainty in spelling <1>/<11> before dlð and some degree of confusion in
final short and long n, r and 5.
A date between about 1330 and 1350, say c. 1340, for the NRA frag-
ments seems likely. That would be consonant with the closer dating of
169 to c. 1320-30 in DIII, 171 and with the assignment of the debt list
on fol. lr to c. 1330-40 (so in Jón Sigurðsson’s notes with the codex) or
to c. 1340 (so in DI II, 727). Ólafur Halldórsson in Jb., xli, also dated
169 to about 1320. Ingvald Undset, Katalog over Rigsarkivets Mem-
branfragmenter (1880-81), says of NRA 57 “vel fra Midten af det 14de
Aarh.”, of 69 “ældre end 1350”; he has no comment on the date of 80.
AM 235 fol. (S4).
I. The present contents.
(The feastdays of the saints are noted in square brackets.)
1. Fol. lral-12. Hallvarðs saga. Printed Hms. I, 396/17-27. [14/5]
2. Fols. lral3-2. Jóns saga baptista I. Corresponds to Post., 842/19-
848/33, but not used there. [24/6]
3. Fols. 3-4vb9. Sebastianus saga. A in Hms. II, 228-35; cf. Agnete
Loth, Opuscula V, 103-22. [20/1]
4. Fol. 4vbl0-37. Agnesar saga. Denoted 235 in Hms. I, 15-16/3.
[21/1]