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INTRODU CTION
him appears to be a piece in Lbs. 2261 8vo written in 1743 (Hdraskrá
II, 435-36; so identified by its number, 4643, in Hdraskrá III, 564), the
latest are two items in Lbs. 1061 4to, both written in 1778 (Hdraskrá I,
429), while Hdraskrá II, 498, further ascribes his JS 42 4to to “ca.
1780”.
Þorkell's exemplar must have been a copy of 391 made after Arni
Magnússon introduced his additional readings from 392 into that manu-
script (see p. 104*). (There is no sign of the material from 392 which
Arni Magnússon added as a supplement to give 391 its present con-
tents; cf. pp. 217*-19*.) The 839 text incorporates Ami’s extras from
392 and also retains four of his notes as marginal entries, viz. by S
8/11 ‘corr: at’, by S 24/7 ‘corr. Messu’, by S 34/19 ‘erat is 5 Nonas
Martii’, by S 61/1 ‘vide Guðndar spgu Biskups’. Dates entered by Ámi
Magnússon in 391 are also reproduced with the exception of ‘1200’ at
S 26/1 and 35/3; on the other hand C' has some additional dates noted
inthe margins: S 1/3‘A° 1052’; 1/13-14‘A° 1056’; 6/4-5 ‘ 1080’; 6/17
‘1082’; 7/97 ‘A° 1106 NB’. Some of the words whichÁrni Magnússon
supplied in brackets in 391 are similarly demarcated in C1 by paren-
theses, brackets or oblique strokes. For distinguishing variants in C1
see below.
TCD 1028 (C2).
This is one of the manuscripts in the collection made by the Rev.
James Johnstone (DNB XXX, 78), apparently acquired by him while
he was in Copenhagen acting as chaplain to Morton Eden, British en-
voy to the Danish court 1779-82, and as secretary to the Legation. He
was also on friendly terms with Grímur Thorkelin, who sent books and
manuscripts to England destined for both Eden and Johnstone soon af-
ter Eden’s departure. Johnstone was in England in 1782 and 1783, but
apparently only on visits. In 1785 he was appointed chargé d’affaires
at the Legation, holding that post in the fifteen-month absence of
Hugh Elliot, the new envoy, and again from November 1789 to June
1790 in the interim between Elliot’s departure and the arrival of his
successor, George Hammond. Johnstone’s editions of a variety of
texts were printed in the Danish capital from 1780 to 1786. See
Skulerud, Catalogue, nr 128; Abbot, Catalogue, nr 1028, and p. 169;
G. Waterhouse, Modem Language Review XXVI, 436-44; R M.