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THE S RECENSION
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S3 and LH are as follows (S24 readings first, S3 readings supported by
LH second): 1/65 Nv hefvir þat] Nv er þat; 2/8 til (2)] -t-; 2/11 KoIIr]
Colr; 2/13 hofðingiar micklir] miklir hofþingiar; 2/42 Enn helgi Ion]
begins a new chapter; 3/7 ok] en.
These scraps of evidence suggest that S2 (via S1) and S4 are most
likely in one line of descent from the S archetype, S3 in another.
1.2. Derivative manuscripts of the S recension
All the following copies are derived from S2, given in the order in
which they are described below; they are all on paper and may be di-
vided into groups thus:
Group A AM 393 4to, Kall 619 4to, Thott 1770 4to, BLAdd. 5313
GroupB AM 391 4to, BL Add. 4867, Lbs. 1442 4to, Lbs. 2243
4to, NBO (olim UB Oslo) 367 4to, Rask 30, Kall 618 4to,
Kall 616 4to
Group C Lbs. 839 4to, TCD 1028 (olim L.4.2)
Group D AM 222 fol., NKS 1201 fol.
Group A
AM 393 4to.
Árni Magnússon’s slip with this manuscript (printed AMKat. I, 602)
says it was written ‘af Sr Eyolfi Bjömssyne epter bok i storu folio, sem
tilforna hefrtilheyrt Skalholltz kirkiu’, i.e. from S2; cf. onAM 391 4to,
p. 102* below. Eyjólfur Björnsson (1666-1746; Smæ. IV, 282-83;
Hafnarstúdentar, 48-49; ÍÆ I, 451-52) registered in the university in
Copenhagen in September 1687 and returned to Iceland in 1689.
Thereafter he lived in various places in Kjós, until he was ordained in
1716 as incumbent of Snæfuglsstaðir (now Klausturhólar parish,
Grímsnes, Árnessýsla; Prestatal, 90-91). Since Árni Magnússon gives
him his clerical title, he obviously wrote his slip after this date. Ámi
employed Eyjólfur as a copyist in the latter’s Copenhagen years (A.
Jakobsen, Opuscula IV, 159-60; Jonna Louis-Jensen, Sagnaþing, 521,