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í Vigur. We do not know precisely where B2 and B3 were written, but it
may be noted that two other texts in 1442, the B2 manuscript of Jóns
saga, are reckoned to be related to Vigur manuscripts: Þorleifs þáttr
shared a common source with the þáttr as preserved in 4867 (Wiktors-
son, Scripta Islandica 38, 69); and Isleifs þáttr was derived from AM
554 h oí 4to which “efter al sandsynlighed” was itself derived from
Stock. papp. 4:o nr 4 (Jón Helgason, Bysk.s., 18; cf. p. 210*). B4 was
in Skálholt in 1735 but perhaps only on a temporary visit; in the next
generation it seems to have been at home in Dýrafjörður, in all pro-
bability to be associated there with sr. Jón Ásgeirsson, whose father-
in-law was sr. Magnús Snæbjarnarson, whose mother was Kristín,
daughter of Magnús í Vigur. Finally, B5 belonged to and was presum-
ably written by sr. Þorbergur Einarsson in Skutulsfjörður, again in the
same deanery and with close family connections in the locality. It may
be noted, too, that Guðmundur Þorláksson, Islenzkar fomsögur I,
xxxi, reckoned that the Ljósvetninga saga in Rask 30 was a first-hand
copy of the text in Kall 616, where B5 is found.
Group C
Lbs. 839 4to (C1).
See Hdraskrá I, 368; Laurentius saga, lxiv-lxv. The volume is of 150
fols., paginated by the copyist, containing Páls saga, fols. 1-10; Laur-
entius saga, fols. 11-52; ‘Saga Jons HolaBiskups’, fols. 53-80; and
Þoriáks saga, fols. 81-150, the last leaf of which is supplied in the
hand of Páll stúdent Pálsson (1806-1877; ÍÆ IV, 136-37). The hand is
that of Þorkell Sigurðsson (sýslumanns Högnasonar) of Hamrar
(Mýrasýsla), who shifts from book-hand to cursive in the last line of
fol. 65r. We do not have his last page of Þorláks saga, but he signs off
each of the other texts as written at Hamrar, Páls saga ended ‘XIIX
Calend. Ianuarii ... MDCCLXX’, Laurentius saga ‘14. Ian: 1771’,
Jóns saga ‘11 Calend: Februarii ... MDCCLXXI’. On Þorkell see
Smæ. III, 354; Valla-Ljóts saga, xix; Westergárd-Nielsen in Convivi-
um 1978, 130-39 (with illustrations of his hand on pp. 135, 138). It is
not known precisely when Þorkell was born, perhaps about 1720, or
when he died, perhaps about 1780. The earliest dated manuscript by