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same source-manuscript. Variants found only in B3 include these (S2
readings first): 2/20 þegar] -r ; 2/47 þessi (þeirre B2) ferð] ferdenne;
5/33-34 villdv - þyðazt] máttu þeckiast ad edur ad hlidnast; 11/15
iafnnan] ; 14/14 sia] þesse; 34/2 sivkR miok] miög veikur; 34/20
fivk] frost; 51/6-7 þaa - byskvpi] -f ; 53/1-12 <A) - byskvp] 4- ; 65/9-
10 eN - þyrptt] -f ; 65/11 haaleita] dyrdlega.
Rask 30 (B4).
See AMKat. II, 519. That this collection of 13 items was not put into
its present binding before 1801 is shown by the date ‘5ta December A°
1800’ on fol. 182r, at the end of item 10, Flóamanna saga, and the use
as end-papers of spare forms designed for the general census of 1 Feb-
ruary 1801. A front flyleaf has a list of items 1-5, 7-9, with the note
‘Keyptar med Verdi i Holti i 0nundarfirdi þann 17da Augusti 1811 af
Þorvalldi Bðdvarssyne’. Sr. Þorvaldur Böðvarsson (1758-1836; ÍÆ V,
240-41; Fjölnir III, 33-63, reprinted Merkir íslendingar H, 173-202)
was appointed to the Holt living in September 1810, moved there in
July 1811, and stayed till 1822 (Prestatal, 193, 122). It was presum-
ably he who had these items 1-5 and 7-9 bound up with the other texts,
items 6 and 10-13, to make the existing book. He bought two other
manuscript books in Holt on that same August day, Rask 28 and 51
(AMKat. II, 517-18, 534). 51 was written in 1790 by sr. Jón Ásgeirs-
son (1740-1810), who served Dýrafjarðarþing 1772-83 before suc-
ceeding his father-in-law, sr. Magnús Snæbjarnarson (1705-83), as
parson of the neighbouring parish of Sandar (IÆ III, 54, 455-56;
Prestatal, 190, 189). Another book, Rask 27, has sr. Jón’s name in it,
and the first two items were written in 1781 by his father-in-law, sr.
Magnús; the remaining items in the book were written by sr. Þorvaldur
(AMKat. II, 517). Yet another volume, Rask 52, written by sr. Magnús
but with pieces in it written by sr. Þorvaldur, is noted as bought ‘Iusto
ære’ by the latter in 1811 (AMKat. II, 535-36; Bibl. Am. XXIII, 163-
64; Laurentius saga, lxi-lxii). Jón Ásgeirsson moved from Sandar to
Holt in 1796 and died in June 1810. His son, Ásgeir (1779-1835), was
ordained as his curate in 1804 and lived on part of the steading; after
his father’s death he moved, but not before 1811, to their family prop-
erty, Sæból á Ingjaldssandi; he retumed to Holt in 1821 (ÍÆ I, 92-93;
Prestatal, 192-93). It seems plain that the books bought by sr. Þorvald-