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2. vegr appears as an a-stem, ‘alla vegha’, 3/14.
3. The place-name is Skálholt, not Skála-.
4. Comp. of gamall is in -II-, ‘ellrum’ 1/24.
5. Gen. offjórir is ‘fioghura’.
6. Demonstrative dat. sg. n. is ‘þui’.
7. Adverb forms are ‘val’, ‘highat’, ‘eig(h)i’ and ‘ecke’.
V. Jóns saga Hand B (Hand 3 of the codex): Script.
Hand B writes from 48v to 64r. Jóns saga byskups ends 58vbl8. Mis-
cellaneous matter in the same hand then fills 58vbl9-60va9,n fol-
lowed by Þorláks saga, still in the same hand as far as 64r;12 it is con-
tinued on 64v by Hand 4 of the codex, ends 68vb31. Another hand is
seen in the text of Jóns saga, 54ra23 and 57ra5-8 (Hand C, see L 26/2,
39/3-6; cf. Stefán Karlsson, EIM VII, 46). This neat hand may be iden-
tified with some confidence as that of the scribe of the group of manu-
scripts which Olafur Halldórsson first isolated as the work of one man,
manuscripts variously associated with West Iceland and in particular
with the Augustinian house at Helgafell.13 The group was extended by
Stefán Karlsson to include among others AM 219 fol. (it contains the
remnants of the L2 text of Jóns saga, see pp. 180*-81* below), which,
if not in the same hand, was certainly the work of a closely related
member of the same scribal school. The writing of the hand that inter-
venes in Stock. 5 appears to me to resemble most nearly the script evi-
denced in AM 239 fol., a work assigned by Stefán Karlsson to the
1360s (EIM VII, 21), a date fully consonant with the period in which
the main middle part of Stock. 5 originated.
In the following Js. signifies the work of Hand B in the Jóns saga
text, 48v-58vbl8 (references are to chapter and line), Misc. his work
58vbl9-60va9, and Þs. his work 60val0-64r (with page and line refer-
ences to Messuskýringar and Bysk.s. as appropriate).
11 Lists of bishops, abbots and abbesses in Iceland and of archbishops of Niðarós and
other bishops of this archiepiscopal see, printed DIIII, 24-27, 148-50, 153-54; follow-
ed by a postolatal, printed in Minjar og menntir (1976), 154-55; followed by a section
on clerical orders, printed DIIII, 151-52, and in a closer transcript in Messuskýringar
(1952), 108-12.
12 Bysk.s., 177-208.
13 See especially his Helgafellsbækur fornar (1966).