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INTRODUCTION
VIII. Other comment.
1. In association with saints’ names the usual attributive in S, L and H
is heilagr, most often with the art., hinn heilagi, hinn helgi. In L syn-
copated forms in helg- are nowhere written out. In S (where rare vari-
ation between S1 and S2 is insignificant) only helg- forms occur in chs.
1-7; in chs. 8-15 the proportion of helg- to heilag- is about 3:2; no in-
stances occur in chs. 16-18, but in those from ch. 19 onwards the
forms written out are almost all in heilag-, giving a proportion to helg-
forms of about 13:1. In H the proportion of helg- to heilag- forms is
about 1:9, with the short forms virtually restricted to chs. 1-31 (i.e. to
the end of the vita). The attribute sælllhinn sæli is found only five
times in S, 19 times in L (including the material in L2), but some 51
times in H1, though here restricted to chs. 28-91 (from the end of the
vita to the end of the acta). (H2 has three more instances of sæla in
place of heilaga in H1 36/41, 43/19, 94/6.) The following instances in
H correspond to the usage of sæll/hinn sæli in S and L: 61/8 (S 37/8),
78/66 (S 63/75), 31/18 (L 42/16), 33/12 (L 49/1), 33/44 (L 49/39),
36/32 (L 50/31).
2. The verb heita in the sense of “vow” has ‘heiter’ in the third sg.
indic., always in H2 but twice ‘heitur’ in H1 46/10, 92/8. Trúa is con-
strued with the acc. in ‘þad truj eg’, 15/7. Imported ske occurs, ‘skedi’
25/1.
3. In two instances H has a construction with geta + pp. where mega
is used in S or both S and L: 50/14 ‘hann gat ecki J gegn honum sied’
(S 30/15 ‘haN matti eigi i gegn sea’); 54/2 ‘hann gat eigi sialfur borid
sig’ (cf. S 34/26 ‘hafði varla mátt’, L 52/27 ‘matti varla’). Other geta
constructions in H, to which S and L in their present state offer no par-
allels, are in 11/10, 36/27-28, 53/14-15, 71/4.
IX. Other texts written by Þorleifur Jónsson and Jón Pálsson.
Apart from his large part in Stock. 4, Þorleifur Jónsson is identified as
the scribe of AM 551 c 4to (called Mánaskálarbók by Árni Magnús-
son, renamed Grafarkotsbók by Stefán Karlsson, Stafkrókar, 119, fol-
lowing Hermann Pálsson), and of fols. 2-297 in AM 304 4to, reason-
ably assigned to the 1630s (see p. 207*).
Stefán Karlsson has found the hand which he attributes to sr. Jón