Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Blaðsíða 119
THE S RECENSION
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21. Fols. 66va32-68. Ceciliu saga meyjar. B in Hms. I, 276-287/1.
[22/11]
In Festskrift til Ludvig Holm-Olsen, 221-35, Agnete Loth published
the text found in the fragment AM 921 V 4to, containing the end of a
Nikolaus saga and the beginning of Lucie saga. She demonstrated that
this leaf belonged to AM 235 fol. and that the hand “minder mindre
om begyndelsen end om de senere dele” (exemplified by a reproduc-
tion, p. 232, of 235 fol. 67r). That is certainly the case and these two
sagas must be added to the contents of the codex, bringing the lec-
tionary close to the end of the year, with Nicholas celebrated on 6/12
and Lucy on 13/12.
In AM 394 fol. Jón Sigurðsson wrote of 235: “Det synes ikke
usandsynligt at dette Haandskrift indeholder ... Brudstykker af 2
Haandskrifter, hvoraf de förste 4 Blade ere ligesaamange Brudstykker
af det ene, men Resten (fol. 5-68) af det andet.” Guðbrandur Vigfús-
son, Bps. I, xxxvii, was not at all tentative: “4 fyrstu blöðin ... eru úr
annari miklu ýngri bók.” Unger, Hms. I, vi, agreed that they came
from a different book but not about their age: “Disse 4 Blade ere af
samme Alder som de pvrige, maaske snarere ældre.” Kálund, AMKat.
I, 196, observed: “bl. 1-4 synes fejlagtig sammenbundne med de
pvrige blade.” I accepted this conclusion in EIM IV, 18, but it has been
justifiably dismissed by Agnete Loth as “næppe ... rigtigt” (Opuscula
V, 116, n. 2).
The scribe of fols. 1-4 was certainly the man who wrote fols. 5-
13vbl2 and 14-19rb21, Hand A in the codex. He shows some variant
characteristics in different blocks of his text,42 which may have helped
to persuade people that fols. 1-4 belonged elsewhere, but there can be
no doubt of the identity. If the calendar order of the lectionary is to be
sustained, however, it is evident that fols. 1-2 originally belonged in
the lacuna between fols. 12 and 13. Fols. 3-4, on Sebastian and Agnes
(20/1 and 21/1), belong to the opening of the volume, with an uncer-
tain number of texts lost between them and fol. 5, where the story of
42 On fols. 3-4 <f> goes below the line; on fols. 5-8r it sits on the line; on fol. 8v both
forms are found and from fol. 9 onwards descent below the line is general, as it is also
on fols. 1-2. Fol. 3 shows no ex. of long-shafted <r> but it is common on fol. 4. It does
not occur on fols. 5-12 and 18-19 but is represented on fols. 1-2 and 13-17.