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THE L RECENSION
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burþum] tilburdum; 5/2 fagrliga] -r ; 5/8 enn] -f ; 21/30 aatt] -f enn; 22/10
hafui þetta] 4- ; 22/23 laganna vandlæte] vandlæti laganna; 25/26
Iðuligum] hugliufum og iþuglegum; 39/30 sua] 4-; 42/17 hinir] þeir.
Thott 1748 4to.
A bound manuscript written in Copenhagen c. 1760-70 by Oddur
Jónsson (1734-1814; see p. 99* above on Oddur and his copies of Jóns
saga, derived from S2). Like the copy of the S recension in Thott 1770
4to, 1748 was in Langebek’s library (Opuscula V, 201, nr 149) and
was presumably made for him.
In addition to flyleaves 1748 contains 134 numbered pages, plus the
last leaf of the last quire which is blank and unnumbered. ‘Sagan af Joni
Helga Ogmundzsyni fyrsta Hóla Biskupi’ is the only text. (The title
recorded in KBKat., ‘lons saga helga biskups Avgmundzsonar’, needs
amendment.) It was copied from 210 when that text was complete, re-
producing all 210’s observable deviations from 396. Oddur expands
contractions and does not follow Jón Olafsson’s orthography very
closely, though he has a tendency of his own to introduce artificial ar-
chaism. He often writes (þ) for d/d in Jón’s manner, and the change
from general use of <æ> to that of <g) is noticeable from about p. 98 on-
wards (cf. above on 210). He ends with the verse introduced in 205 by
Jón Gissurarson but omits the phrase parenthetically inserted by him at
40/48 and repeated as ‘segia papistar’ by Jón Olafsson in 396 and 210.
New readings in 1748 are e.g. (readings from L1 first = 210, whose
variant spellings are not noted): 2/15 woru] urþu; 5/8 Sem] sinni;
22/38 ERkibyskupinn] Erkibiskup; 26/4 kostgæfi] kostgiæfni; 26/10
uera] verþa; 26/17 þeim] hans; 42/17 drogu] þrogo (!).
NKS 1202 fol.
This bound number is of 16 fols. and contains only ‘Saga af Jöni helga
Ogmunds Syne; firsta Höla Biscupe’. It belonged to Langebek, who
wrote at the top of fol. lr ‘Manu Domini Olavi Gislason pastoris Is-
landi 1768’. Other manuscript copies made by sr. (Mála-)Ólafur Gísla-
son were in Langebek’s library; those now in the Royal Library came
with Suhm’s collection in 1796 (KBKat., 1); see Opuscula V, 214, and
nrs 46, 62, 97 (= NKS 1202), 122, on pp. 192-93, 196, 198; nr 147, p.