Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Blaðsíða 222
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INTRODUCTION
school (cf. V above on Hand C of Jóns sagá), Hand 5 perhaps also
had a visitor or supervisor who took it upon himself to contribute
70ral-3.
AM 219 fol. (L2).
The seventeen leaves extant in AM 219 fol. are supplemented by JS
fragment 5 and Lbs. fragment 6, both single leaves in Landsbókasafn
Islands, and manuscript nr 176 in Þjóðminjasafn Islands. Another
fragment has also come to light in Iceland, belonging between fols. 16
and 17 of 219. Olafur Halldórsson attributed a further seven manu-
scripts to the same scribe, or perhaps to a tight-knit scribal group, and
Stefán Karlsson has added another, Perg. 4:o nr 34, fols. 91-128.46
The texts represented in 219 and its associated fragments are (1)
Jóns saga in the L recension, four folios; (2) Þorláks saga in the C re-
cension, six folios; and (3) Guðmundar saga by Abbot Arngrímr
(Guðmundar saga D), eleven folios. A few variants from (1) are cited
in Bps. I, 220-23, 229-32, and the text of fols. 3-4 is printed there, pp.
254-60. In the present volume full variants from fols. 1-2 are cited (as
far as damage permits) in the apparatus beneath the text printed from
L1; the matter stretches from 8/5 to 12/24 and from 18/7 to 21/28. Be-
tween fols. 3 and 4 of (1) three leaves are missing; the text of the sur-
viving folios 3-4 is appended as chs. (xlix)-(lvi) at the end of the L1
transcript on pp. 102-08. Variants from (2) are cited in Bysk.s. (denot-
ed C1), to the A recension, chs. 6-9, to B chs. 34, 36-41 (in part), and
text from 219 is printed as the C recension chs. 27-43 (with minor in-
sertions from elsewhere) and chs. 125-32. Sparse variants from (3) are
cited in Bps. II, 42-43, 56, 63, 177.
Stefán Karlsson has published the fragments of 219 in EIM VII, and
in his introduction gives a full account of their provenance and physi-
cal condition, and of the scribal practice evidenced in them and in the
other manuscripts that make up the whole homogeneous group.
46 See Jakob Benediktsson, Skrá um skinnblöð, 2-3 and 19; idem, Skírnir 125 (1951),
189-90; Ólafur Halldórsson, Helgafellsbækur fornar (1966); Stefán Karlsson, EIM VII
(1967), 9-22; idem, Opuscula IV (1970), 347-49.