Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Síða 265
THE H RECENSION
223*
madr háiR wexti. ok biartr at aaliti’. Since there is a case to be made for
some degree of acquaintance with the 392 H text on sr. Jón’s part (and
there is no trace of the visitant’s lustre in 391), it would be natural to
impute the description by Bishop Finnur, if it is not his own embroi-
dery, to the same source. (On the possibility that he knew an L text see
p. 270*.)
3. In AM 364 4to, the collection of Arni Magnússon’s excerpts and
notes relating to Ari Þorgilsson and íslendingabók, there is a slip,
marked ‘N. xxiii’ by Arni Magnússon and now counted as fol. 100, on
the recto of which he quotes ‘Ions Saga Holabps Cap. 6’ (with ‘in
membraná’ written above this heading): ‘Gizur bp hefuer verit mestr
haufðingi, ok algofgaztr maðr aa aullu Islandi. at þvi er sagði Ari prestr
þorgils son at alþyðu virðing hafui aafallit’, see S 6/18-20. In following
notes Ámi observes that ‘chartaceum meum exemplar’ omits the word
"haufðingi’ and reads ‘mestr ok algof. maðr’; that it has ‘her a landi’
for ‘aa aullu Islandi’; and that it inserts ‘hinn froði’ after ‘prestr’. Ámi
Magnússon had copies on paper derived from L1, but the manuscript
he refers to here must have been 392, cf. H 12/72-75, though this has
the H reading ‘algioruastur’ for ‘algofgaztr’. Bartholin had AM 234
fol. on loan in Copenhagen from the autumn of 1687 (cf. p. 15*) and
Árni Magnússon made a transcript of Jóns saga from it, probably that
same winter; the codex was returned to Iceland and came back to Árni
for good in 1699 (p. 98*). He had 392 on loan in 1701, and between
then and 1712 introduced variants from it in 391 - but not these noted
on the slip in 364; cf. above. Árni’s loan of the 392 volume was re-
newed in 1712, and the book officially became his in 1715. It is a
moot point whether he would have referred to it as ‘chartaceum meum
exemplar’ before this last date.
III. Relations of H1 and H2.
H1 cannot be a copy of H2, for the latter has various errors and omis-
sions and an occasional addition not found in H1; see H2 variants quo-
ted at e.g. H 19/21-22 (cf. S 8/42-43), 25/25 (cf. L 36/7), 26/12 (cf. S
18/13, L 37/13), 28/14 (‘sonur minn’; cf. S 19/28, L 39/26), 29/5
(‘hugdarmenn’; cf. S 20/4), 35/18-19, 36/40 (cf. L 50/40), 41/21 (cf. S
22/20, L 45/22), 48/12 (‘ollum’; cf. S 28/17), 53/21 (cf. S 33/16), 62/6
(cf. S 38/7), 78/72 (cf. S 63/83), 84/4 (cf. S 44/3), 95/1 (cf. S 60/1);