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THE H RECENSION
217*
may encourage the belief, firmly held by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, that
the Jóns saga and Guðmundar söguv in 392, 395 and 398 belonged to
the same spate of copying activity. It may be noted that Jón Sigurðsson,
DII, 324, also assigned 395 to 1641.
392 appears to be the only copy of Jóns saga associated with
Þormóður Torfason, and he was content to be without it from 1701 on-
wards: his studies were, of course, chiefly concerned with history ex-
ternal to Iceland. In Historia rerum norvegicarum III, 432-36, he gives
a Hulda-Hrokkinskinna version of Gísls þáttr, and ends with this on
Jón helgi:
Exinde in Islandiam rediit, deinde diæcesis Holanæ Episcopus om-
nium primus factus, anno Christi MCVI. ætatis sexagesimo qvarto,
denatus anno MCXXI. ætatis septuagesimo nono, albo Sanctorum
inscriptus anno MCCI. anno ab obitu octogesimo.
The dates given could depend on Crymogæa, Bibl. Arn. X, 94/33-35,
96/1-3, and the precise “eighty years” at the end suggest that they do
(“post annos demum 80” is Amgrímur Jónsson’s expression). A state-
ment of Jón’s age, fifty-four when he was consecrated, is found in
Islendingabók (cf. Islb., ch. 10), repeated in Jóns saga, S 7/101,
20/20-21, L 22/41-42, 40/36, H 15/40-41, 29/20-21, and Kristni saga
(cf. Hb., 146/27-28), but Þormóður here follows Brevis Commenta-
rius, Bibl. Arn. IX 51/20, “Anno ætat. 64” - whatever may have
caused sr. Amgrím’s error, cf. Bibl. Am. XII, 163.
392 and 391 (in its way) were the only texts of the H recension of
Jóns saga known to Guðbrandur Vigfússon when he edited Bps. In
392 some marks in pencil (and a few in ink), brackets, small crosses,
the figures 219 and 221 (i.e. references to L2 and S1), remain from his
attention. Normalised text from it is found in his footnotes to the S
version, Bps. I, 151-202, and in the following “Viðbætir”, chiefly
miracles not in S, Bps. I, 203-12.
II. Texts derived from H2.
1. H2 = AM 392 4to was the source of variants and additions entered
by Ámi Magnússon in AM 391 4to (see p. 104* above). He also had
continuous text copied from 392 to serve as an appendix to the S2 copy