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THE S RECENSION
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son in 1712, though Ámi Magnússon has altered some to agree with
the pagination of 393; a nineteenth-century hand has also pencilled in
some further alternative page-references to this manuscript.
393 consists of five blank leaves at the front and 15 at the back (in-
cluding flyleaves), with Jón.s saga on 52 fols. between them, pagina-
ted 1-103 by Árni Magnússon. In effect Eyjólfur aimed at an exact re-
production of the S2 text, imitating the hands of the codex with fair
success, and in general faithfully retaining spelling, abbreviations, ac-
cents and punctuation. The copy bears further witness to his skill as a
pen-man.
Naturally, he makes some mistakes, chiefly of omission, e.g. (S2
readings first): 1/69 hann (1)] 4- ; 8/23 iðrotta] 4- ; 8/56 uestra] -r ; 13/6
ok bæ] 4- ; 13/12 savð] savgð; 14/12 við] til; 18/19 iamnn] 4- ; 29/8
hæls] hæla; 29/21 arnaðar] naðar; 35/3 þva latið] þav talið; 40/26 and-
ar] 4-; 44/31 heilagra] 4-; 45/1 at staðnvm] 4-; 63/43 innan] 4-.
Kall 619 4to.
This unbound manuscript is in the hand of Oddur Jónsson (1734-
1814), who also made the S2 copies in Thott 1770 4to and BL Add.
5313, as well as the copy of the L version in Thott 1748 4to (p. 195*
below). Oddur was enrolled in the university in Copenhagen in De-
cember 1757 and stayed a good many years in the capital (ÍÆ IV, 15;
Hafnarstúdentar, 98; Bibl. Arn. XXIII, 142). Many copies by him are
in the collections (see e.g. Valla-Ljóts saga, xliv, Laurentius saga, lv).
He was back in Iceland in or by 1785. At the end of his copy of Eiríks
saga rauða in BL Add. 11123, fol. 233r, he wrote ‘Uppskrifad á Borg-
artúne 1775 af Odde Iónssyne’ (Borgartún is in Rangárvallasýsla). HÞ
also notes that he was in the country by the autumn of that year. He
was ordained to the Sólheimaþing living (Skaftafellssýsla) in 1778.
The manuscript was in the collection of Abraham Kall (1743-1821),
bought for the Royal Library after his death (KBKat., xlix).
The manuscript is of 136 pp., the text on pages numbered 1-133,
followed by three unnumbered and blank. On a loose leaf at the begin-
ning Oddur writes ‘Vita S1' Jonæ Episcopi Holani secundum Exemplar
Chartaceum in 4‘°, Num. 393. in Bibliotheca A. Magnæi’, followed by
quotation of Árni Magnússon’s reference to Eyjólfur Bjömsson and
his exemplar (see above). The text of Jóns saga in 619 is complete (cf.