Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Page 257
THE H RECENSION
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an earlier writer had repeated the names ‘Asgeir kneifar’ and ‘ÞorkelT
(S 1/6), but these lost their initials (A) and (Þ) when the leaf was
trimmed. The marginalia by Þormóður, on the other hand, appear to
have been written after that trimming was done.
Jón Pálsson begins his text on fol. 4r with the words ‘Marger byskup-
ar’, see H 1/1, and gives this page the signature ‘Aiiij’, evidently be-
cause he had been instructed to leave space for the lost opening of the
saga. The lack was in fact made good on fol. 3v, where a start to the
saga is supplied in a hand which Stefán Karlsson has identified as that
of Halldór Guðmundsson á Sílastöðum (Eyjafjörður; born c. 1600,
died after 1667), who most probably wrote it about 1650; see Opuscu-
la IV, 83-107, esp. 95, 105-07, and Stafkrókar, 400; cf. P. Springborg,
Gardar VIII, 66-67. Halldór inserts his own title, ‘Saga Af Heilaga
Jöne Qgmundz Sýne: Hoola Biskupe:’, and then the following text
(abbreviations are expanded without indication, a final (3>-like figure
and a tailed (2)-like figure are both reproduced as (z), and diacritic
marks are normalised):
Þar hefium vier Saugu hinz heilaga Jönz biskupz: At i' þann týma er
riede Noreige: haralldur kongr Sigurdarsson: er lided var fra falle
Olafz kongz hins helga: fiorer vetur og tuttugu: Þa er hinn heilage
Jön biskup fæddur a: Bæ: þeim i' fliötzhlyd er Breidabölstadur heit-
er: fadir hanz hiet Ogmundur: enn Þörgerdur Möder: Fadir Og-
mundar hiet Þorkiell: Sonur Asgejrs kneifar:/ Enn fadir Þorgierdar
hiet Eýgill: Sonur Sýdu hallz: Þess mannz er fýrstum vard auded af
óllum hófdingium J Austfirdinga fiördunge at taka skýrn og rietta
trv/ Mödir Þorgierdar hiet Þörlaug: döttir Þorvalldz vr Ase:/ Hinn
helge Johanniz vöx vpp med fðdur sýnum a Breidabölz stad: til
þess er hann var Atta vetra gamall: Þa vrdu mýkil týdinde og þau er
ðllu landzfölke var mýkill fagnadur ad: Þa var vijgdur til biskupz
Jsleifur son Gýssurar huýta: Og Dötturson Þöroddz göda: at bæn
allz landz lýdz: hann var výgdur til biskupz af Adalberte i Bremen:
a Saxlande: a dðgum Leonis Pava: ens: 4ö: med þui nafne:/ Jsleifur
var lærdur a Saxlande J þeyre Borg er herfurda heiter: hann var
fýrst výgdur hingad til landz: þeira biskupa er ad stöle hafa setid i'
skalahðllte:
marger (as catchword)
Eý vantar hier meira a vpphaf sðgunnar