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INTRODUCTION
vænter; 24/16 sagðri] þeirre; 36/6 Ballduini] Boldevin; 37/15 Margar-
mælandi] after 37/17 leggiandi.
In copying his extracts Arni Magnússon introduces some modifica-
tion and abridgment, but we also find various new readings of a nature
to suggest that they must been in his exemplar. (A few readings also
show that it was unrelated to Jón Olafsson’s copy of 205 in AM 396
fol., on which see below.) New variants in Barth. XII include, e.g. (L'
= 205 first, Barth. XII second): 14/11 baðst] bad; 17/8 kpminn] + og
fer effter ockur; 17/24 þat er enn] enn þad er; 19/17 yfir þau] um þaug;
19/29 vm Raaðum] umrædum; 21/36 ydr] þig; 25/42-43 hafa (2) - at]
hefde sett i ritníngunne og; 25/47 bannaði - heyra] bannade sterklega
mannsongskvæde; 29/10 lucktu] liktudu. A final point to demonstrate
the existence of this intermediate text is the incompatibility of Arni’s
chapter-numbering with the chapter-divisions of 205. The latter are
not numbered but the paragraphing (with the Prologue omitted) fol-
lows the chapter-order of L1 with only one or two jumps. Arni’s ch. 6
corresponds, for instance, to 8 in 205, his 9-11 to 12-14 in 205, his 14
to 17 in 205, and so on with various overlapping; on Ámi’s ch. 18 see
above.
AM 396 fol.
On this manuscript see Antiquarisk Tidsskrift, 1849-51, 14; Njála II,
732-35; Bysk.s., 44-45. The volume contains various works in various
hands (for one attribution see D. Slay, Opuscula I, 148). According to
the title-page they were ‘Samannfest og Innbunded Anno Domini
M.DCC.XXXI’. It is no longer in this binding from 1731 (rebound in
1909), and an original flyleaf has been lost. This flyleaf contained
some matter reproduced in Lbs. 795 4to (see below). The manuscript
was bought for the collection of the Oldskriftselskab in Copenhagen,
apparently in 1849 (Antiquarisk Tidsskrift, loc. cit.), and came to the
Arnamagnæan collection in 1883 (AMKat. I, 307). An account of
later owners of the codex is given in Njála II, 734-35, beginning with
Jón Egilsson (1724-1807; ÍÆ III, 92) of Vatnshom in Hauka-
dalur (Dalasýsla). The copy in Lbs. 795 4to shows however that 396
was in the possession of Bjarni sýslumaður Pétursson of Skarð and
Staðarhóll about 1750; cf. pp. 197*-98* below.
‘Sagan af Joni Helga 0gmundzsini, firsta Hola Biskupi’ is on fols.