Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Side 158
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INTRODUCTION
Kall 616 4to (B5).
See KBKat., 385-86, and comment by Kálund, Fljótsdœla hin meiri,
x-xiii, and by Holm-Olsen, Bibl. Arn. XIII, 70-71; cf. further Einar G.
Pétursson, Eddurit Jóns Guðmundssonar lærða I, 235-36 and refs.
Items 1-15 in this bound volume are in one hand, writing a small, neat
book-hand, tightly packed and with much but consistent use of abbre-
viation, in items 1-6, 11-15, cursive in items 7-10. (The foliation giv-
en in KBKat. is mistaken from item 7 onwards. It should read: 7) Bl.
41-61; 8) Bl. 62-67; 9) Bl. 68; 10) Bl. 69-71; 11) Bl. 92-96; 12) Bl. 97;
13) Bl. 98; 14) Bl. 99-109r; 15) Bl. 109v-134; 16) Bl. 135-160.) Item
16, Finnboga saga ramma, is in a different hand but with corrections
entered by the main copyist.
On fol. 12v, otherwise blank, is ‘Þorbcrgur Einarsson er riettur
eigande þessarar Sagna-Bookar. 1749.’ His name is also in a broad ver-
tical band forming part of the decorated title-page. He is identified as sr.
Þorbergur Einarsson (1722-84) who, after matriculating from the Skál-
holt school in 1743, was ordained to the living of Eyri in Skutulsfjörður
(ísafjarðarsýsla) in 1746, and stayed there all his life (ÍÆ V, 82;
Prestatal, 195). Adate corresponding closely to that given by sr. Þorberg-
ur is deducible from the last entry in the first item, a list of the kings of
Denmark, ending ‘27. Fridrich 5te. hans Drottning heiter Lovise, dötter
Engla konungs’. Frederick V succeeded in 1746; Louise died in De-
cember 1751. Sr. Þorbergur does not appear to be associated with any
other known manuscript. The art-work of the title-page and of individ-
ual titles throughout the volume suggests that he must also have been
the scribe (though Guðmundur Þorláksson, Islenzkar fomsögur I, xxx,
did not think so) - he is said to have been taught to draw and paint by
his matemal grandfather, sr. Hjalti Þorsteinsson (1665-1754; ÍÆ II,
363-64), well known as an artist, who fostered him in Vatnsfjörður. It is
not known how the volume came into Kall’s collection.
Jóns saga is item 7, fols. 41-61, with the omamented title, ‘Her Hef-
ur Sauguna Af Jöne Augmundssijne HoolaByskupe hinum Helga’.
Variants found only in B5 are e.g. (S2 first): 7/52 enga] ránga; 7/66 ser]
siert vel; 8/60 himnvm] Himnenum; 8/95 t.n. epistorvm] ~ ; 8/147
fvllz] + rádet; 24/7 nonv] kýrkiu; 29/15 meinsemðar] + lagst; 47/3 vt
sott] kröm; 62/14 tekR - hvgsar] tekur hann nu ad huxa umm; 63/70
henni hafði] hinne horfde; 63/84 ek (1)] + s(eiger) hon.