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INTRODUCTION
ing are found in 140 (L' references in parentheses): f...þar (fridar
39/26), sv... (suarar 39/31), til ... þar (til lifuandi manna jardar 40/24;
‘lifanþi mann’ is still visible in 396), hvor... (huerium 40/25), ...
(meðr 40/27), ... (uiðr 40/28), ... skri (himneskre 40/29), ...
(Ierusalem 40/31), ... (fram af 40/32), ... idnir (þa er liþnir 40/33,
t.n.), ... (likit42/18).
New readings in 140 are e.g. (readings first from L' = 396, whose
variant spellings are not noted): 7/7 sem] er; 10/34 fyrir] = ; 20/14
Nordlendinga] = ; 27/6-7 Ok at - guðligrar þionastu] -r ; 28/37 hrið]
tiþ; 28/37 at] á; 35/12 kendi] þeckte; 37/24 þessa] þeirra; 40/34 ok] 4-;
40/45-46 eptir þi - sagt uerða] 4 .
JS 629 4to.
On this manuscript volume containing 29 texts in several hands see
Valla-Ljots saga, xxx-xxxi; Membrana regia deperdita, lviii-lix, lxvi-
lxvii; Hemings þáttr Aslákssonar, 1, lii-liv. Some names in it not men-
tioned in Valla-Ljóts saga, loc. cit., are ‘Ami Arnason’ on fol. 225v,
‘Biörg Þorlaks Dottir’ on fol. 64r, and ‘AOlafsson’ on fol. 85v; these
pages are otherwise blank. The names are of people so far unidentified.
‘Saga af Jone Helga Augmundssyne Biskupe’ is on fols. 86-109,
paginated 1-47, item 6 in the volume. Fol. 109v is taken up by a “por-
trait” of St Jón, holding a curious kind of crozier in his left hand and
an open book in his right. (Grímur M. Helgason, Landsbókasafn
íslands: Arbok, 1972, 160-61, has some comment on the art-work of
this copyist, Halldór Davíðsson.) In a decorated initial at the start of
the text we find ‘H.D.’, the date 1812, and the age of the writer, ‘20
ara’. At the end of Hemings þáttr, fol. 164r, ‘J fliter ritin A° 1811 af
HDavidssyni’, and at the end of the Þáttr af Jóni Upplendingakon-
ungi, fol. 166v, he signs himself ‘H. Davidsson’, after which another
hand has added ‘ahofe’. Halldór Davíðsson (1792-1865; ÍÆ II, 250)
must then have made his copy while living at Hof í Öræfum, where his
father, (Mála-)Davíð Jónsson, was bóndi (ÍÆ I, 306); cf. JS 91 8vo,
written by Halldór at Hof in 1810, and ÍB 237 8vo, written by him
there in 1815. In Manntal 1816, 128, he is recorded with his father at
Prestsbakkakot in the parish of Kirkjubæjarklaustur.
At the end of Jóns saga (‘þad heidarliga Jardande’; cf. L' 42/19, and
see on 205, p. 186* above), Halldór writes: