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INTRODU CTION
2 (a) is Ps. 121. 1 (Vulgate).
2 (b) consists of the second and third stanza, but in reverse order, of
Ad cantum laetitiae, Analecta Hymnica 20, nr 69. The first known Ice-
landic recording of this is in Jón Olafsson’s Melodia, in Rask 98 8vo,
written c. 1650; Bjarni Þorsteinsson, Islenzk þjóðlög, 206-09, 304-05.
The text there, “cum tripudio psallat’’, is closer than the entry here in
Stock. 4 to the version in Analecta Hymnica, “Psallans cum tripudio”.
3 (a) is recorded by Hast, Bibl. Am. XXIII, 124, but without the
negative.
4 (b) is from the so-called Icelandic Runic Poem. It begins in re-
ceived form but ‘ragn’ is a variant also attested in the corrupt version
given by Ole Worm in Literatura runica (1636); see Smástykker, 4, 10,
cf. 107-08; Kvæðabók úr Vigur, A, fol. 80r.
4 (c) Enquiry has not so far led to identification of this úrkast verse.
4 (d) The initials at the end of this entry suggest that the writer was
Þórður Jónsson of Strandsel in Ögurhreppur and other places nearby,
and comparison with his hand in AM 552 k (3 4to, written in 1683,
makes the identification plausible. Þórður and his son Jón are well
known as men who wrote for Magnús í Vigur (see pp. 106*-07*
above). Þórður wrote most of Stock. papp. 4:o nr 16 for the young
Magnús Jónsson early in 1654, and was still active thirty years later;
he made verse too, cf. AMKat. I, 696, on AM 552 k þ 4to, fols. 18r-v;
two sets of rímur, one ascribed to 1653, one to 1682, have also been
attributed to him, Rímnatal II, 143, cf. AMKat. II, 18 and 28, on AM
612 c 4to and 615 o 4to. This entry by Þórður does no more than con-
firm the existence of 4 in Magnús Jónsson’s ownership.
AM 392 4to (H2).
For comment on this manuscript and the circumstances of its origin
and preservation see in particular Bps. I, xxvi, xli-xlii; Kálund,
AMKat. I, 601-02, 603, 604, II, 186-89; Jón Helgason, Bysk.s., 29;
Ólafur Halldórsson, Grænland, 168-74 (with the fullest documenta-
tion); Stefán Karlsson, Guðmundar sögur I, civ, and Stafkrókar, 393.
Þormóður Torfason put into one volume the copy of Jóns saga, now
in 392, along with the two Guðmundar saga copies, now in AM 395
4to and AM 398 4to, and the copy of the so-called Grænlandsannáll
now in AM 768 4to. It was a consolidation undertaken apparently not