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INTRODUCTION
Opuscula VIII, 234-35). He presumably then moved on to Jóns saga,
which is merely dated to 1692, with Carion fresh in mind. (In view of
the hostility towards the uncanonised Pope Paschal II evident in Cari-
on’s account of his dealings with the emperor, Chronica, 147v-148v,
BL Add. 11153, fol. 75v, we may be justified in reading Jón’s note as
more of a sardonic reflection than a leamed injunction.)
The Jóns saga in 4867 is the earliest of the extant texts whose ulti-
mate source was most probably a copy of the transcript from AM 234
fol., S2, made by Arni Magnússon and given by him to Þórður Jónsson
(see p. 102*). The textual details to support this conclusion and to
demonstrate, within limits, the intemal relations of this set of deriva-
tives are on pp. 117*-19* below, after the manuscripts themselves
have been itemised.
Distinctive readings confined to the 4867 text are e.g. (S2 readings
first): 1/24 heimili] ad setur; 2/8 aðrir] 4- ; 2/35-36 goðs mannz]
goodra manna; 4/3 til þess] -f ; 5/15 akafva] aa kaflega; 8/46 færðar]
fluttar; 11/8 eyfvit] Ei fundit; 12/1 het] -f ; 19/8-9 þaa - iafnnlyndr] -f ;
23/11 goðmannliga] manndömlega; 63/82 seg] + þu Liettilega og.
Lbs. 1442 4to (B2).
Apart from the entry in Hdraskrá, I, 522-23, reference is made to this
manuscript volume in connection with item 4, Isleifs þáttr hyskups, by
Jón Helgason, Bysk.s., 18-19, and in connection with item 9, the last
in the volume, Þorleifs þáttr jarlaskálds, by Österholm, 25, 47-50,
with comment by Wiktorsson, Scripta Islandica 38, 51-71. In
Hdraskrá three hands are mentioned, but the third leaf of the Jóns saga
text, paginated as 219-20, is in a fourth and later-looking hand, on dif-
ferent paper from the rest. The main hand wrote items 1 and 4-9; for a
specimen see the facsimile in Österholm, 25. Österholm, 55-109,
gives a diplomatic transcript of the Þorleifs þáttr printed alongside
other versions.
None of the items in this hand is dated, but items 2 and 3, each in a
separate hand, are: at the end of Laxdœla saga, with a page number
177, stands ‘Anno 1723. 17. Martij’, and at the end of Bjarnar saga
Hítdœlakappa, with a page number 67, ‘Anno 1724. Endud 12 febru-
arij’. The main hand appears to be more or less contemporary with
these. A terminus is given by a list of the contents and a note by Jón