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8. Adverbs: In the sentence, Þs. 184/5-6, ‘fystu frændr Thorlaks at
hann skylldi stadfesta sitt Ræd. nokkut meir enn þa var’, ‘nokkut’ is
presumably to be taken as a modifier of ‘meir’; cf. pp. 249*-50*.
X. Notes on other hands in Stock. perg. fol. nr 5.
1. Hand 1. The scribe responsible for fols. Iv-48ra5 in Stock. 5 is
known from other manuscripts, AM 220 VI fol., two leaves with text
from Arna saga byskups, and AM 122 a fol., Sturlunga saga (fols. 70-
94). The former is reproduced in facsimile in EIM VII (section VII),
edited by Stefán Karlsson, and is printed in Árna saga biskups, edited
by Þorleifur Hauksson (1972), 10-17, 26-34. The latter is edited by Kr.
Kálund in Sturlunga saga (1906-11), I, 499-576, II, 1-10, 45-64, 70-
106, and in facsimile by Jakob Benediktsson in EIM I. A major dis-
tinction between 220 VI and Stock. 5 on the one hand and 122 a on the
other is the almost consistent use of long-shafted (r) in the first pair,
while this type of (r) is rare in 122 a. As Stefán Karlsson suggests, this
is best explained by assuming that the scribe abandoned his old-fash-
ioned long-shafted (r>, and we may thus count 122 a the latest of the
three pieces, and not written before the scribe’s work in Stock. 5 as
Kálund and Jakob Benediktsson thought.33 Stefán Karlsson further ar-
gues that the items written by Hand 1 in Stock. 5, Guðmundar saga
byskups and the Guðmundar drápa by Arngrímur Brandsson, were
originally conceived as an independent book, and the rest of the con-
tents were added and the volume made up in its present shape at a lat-
er date, possibly not in the same place. Since the later contents, at least
those in Hands 2, 3 and 4, can be dated with confidence to the ten
years or so after 1360-61, the work of Hand 1 must have been done a
few years earlier, with 1347 as an extreme terminus post quem.
The provenance of 122 a and 220 VI was certainly western Iceland,
with the shores of Breiðafjörður the likely neighbourhood. It should
be noted that, while the texts in Hands 2, 3 and 4 were undoubtedly
written as a continuum, the work of Hand 5, confined to Játvarðar
saga, may be an independent contribution - the scribe appears to have
belonged to a different school (see below). Three scribes in one place
33 Cf. Jonna Louis-Jensen, EIM VIII, 12 and n. 15 there.