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INTRODUCTION
ent paper. The text, which runs from ‘hinne mestu bernsku’ to
‘roskenn ad aldre’, S 2/3-44, shows nothing to suggest that it was not a
copy of the page it replaced, presumably because this was deemed ir-
reparable, rather than the result of recourse to a different manuscript.
On the page numbered 248 the main hand ended at S ch. 17 with the
words ‘fra falli Ölafs konungs Triggvasonar xviij vetur.’ To this
another has added ‘annars hundrads’. I cannot tell whether this addi-
tion is the work of the man who occasionally corrected the text else-
where, usually by superimposing the letters he preferred on the origi-
nal writing. At S 1/53 the text has ‘þvy Jlle’, which is underlined with
the correction ‘hellde’ written above it, apparently by the scribe. At S
19/23 the text has ‘Þorwalldr’, corrected to ‘Þorwardr’ by imposing
<r> on <11>. These emendations bring both readings into line with S2
and 391 (and, as it happens, with B4 and B5, see pp. 113*-16*, 118*).
S chs. 10-15 and 17-19 were numbered 1-9 by the copyist (pp. 242-
50); S chs. 22 and 24-33 were numbered 2-12 (pp. 255-66); S chs. 36-
47 were numbered 13-24 (pp. 271-72, 279-86); S chs. 52-64 were num-
bered 28-40 (pp. 289-99). Trimming has damaged some of the numerals
and apparently totally removed others. Two notes are entered in mar-
gins by the copyist: on p. 252 ‘NB’ beside the text corresponding to S
20/13; and on p. 254 ‘[post] obitum’ beside the beginning of S ch. 21.
Variants peculiar to B2 are e.g. (S2 readings first): 1/53 helldi] þvy
Jlle (corrected to ‘hellde’, see above); 2/5 honvm - havndvm] under
hóndum hönum; 2/26 með - vmstilli] - ; 2/30 hiaa þvi] nær; 14/2 laa]
var; 24/8 einn samtt] einsaman heima J Reckiu (the last two words
above the line with a caret mark; cf. B3 einsamann heima); 44/5 hög-
ÍNda] lækninga edur hægenda (cf. B3 lækninga); 44/17 þvRv verkir]
þuerrar Werkurenn (cf. B3 þverrade verkurinn); 53/5 eyfit] ei pared.
Lbs. 2243 4to (B2a).
See Hdraskrá III. 291. This contains a miscellaneous collection of
texts written by Daði (fróði) Níelsson (1809-57), on whom see ÍÆ I,
303, and for more detailed accounts Jón Jónsson Aðils, Skímir 84,
117-37 (reprinted Merkir íslendingar, N.F. II, 79-101), and Finnur Sig-
mundsson, Menn og minjar II. The first piece in it, ‘Æfisaga ... Doc-
tor Marteins Lúthers’, is dated 12 February 1846 both on the title-page
and on fol. 36v, where it ends. After three leaves, blank except for part