Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Page 253
THE H RECENSION
211*
bound collection. (The contents written by Þorleifur, Hand A, fall
naturally into the gatherings covered by fols. 1-88, with a lost quire
between fol. 40 and fol. 41; fols. 89-132; fols. 133-56; fols. 224-51;
fols. 252-77; those in the anonymous Hand B into fols. 157-208; those
by Jón Pálsson, Hand C, into fols. 209-23.) As Jón Sigurðsson re-
marked, the fact that the scribe of Jóns saga, fols. 224-51, is Þorleifur
Jónsson, the writer of most of the texts in the volume, and that the saga
is annotated by Bjöm á Skarðsá naturally associates the copy with 4,
but we lack the positive evidence to show that it followed the same
route as the rest, from Skagafjörður to Vigur to Stockholm.
A few entries in 4, not noted in earlier commentaries, may be worth
recording:
1. Fol. 153r ‘Vel bytur penni minum godum vin magnwsi halssine.’
2. Fol. 250v (a) ‘Lætatus sum in his quæ dicta sunt mihi in domum
Domini ibimus’
(b) ‘Ergo nostra Cantio, Laudes Cum jucundio psallant [sic] Dei
filio Domino
Virgo parit filium, Lactans Regem omniuw, Matris Manet Gremi-
um - jntactum’
3. Fol. 277r (a) ‘fniöskadalur (ecj) hniöskadalur.’
(b) ‘Haalff Jon dan Ad Heite’
4. Fol. 277v (a) ‘Magnus Sugurdsson’
(b) ‘reijd kueda Ross[ ... ]
ragn er suerded be[ ... ]’
(c) Probably in the same hand (line-division as given):
‘Morginn huom sem menia
brecka, möted hitte,
otade hun fra sier 0llum ecka,
og Angred stitte.’
(d) In another hand (line-division as given; some punctuation con-
jectural):
‘Vnd er hrelldur, synd er selldur, sorgar mæter þraa,
J anaud felldwr, ei kann helldwr eymd sig leisa l'rai,
misgiord velldwr, madur'mn gielld;/r, mötgangz von<ir) aa.
ÞJS m e’