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THE H RECENSION
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Pálsson in episcopal documents from Hólar written in 1631, 1637,
1639, 1641 and 1642; and payments to him as a copyist were recorded
in Hólar accounts in 1664, 1665 and 1666. Jón Helgason, Bysk.s., 29,
without identifying the writer, had earlier found the hand now attrib-
uted to Jón Pálsson in AM 380, 404, 446 and 458 4to (originally all in
one volume, written in or before 1641, see p. 216*; Stefán Karlsson,
Stafkrókar, 396-97), 392 (H2), 395 and 398 4to (on these see pp. 212*-
13*), and thought that BL Add. 4882 was “vistnok skrevet af samme
mand”. Jónas Kristjánsson, Valla-Ljóts saga, vi, found this hand in
AM 496 4to (where a Hrafnkels saga fragment is dated 16 December
1639 at Hólar; Stefán Karlsson, Stafkrókar, 396) as well as in 104, 329
(originally with 496), 410, 551 d a, 562 c and 606 g 4to. (This list is
also adopted by Gillian Fellows Jensen, Hemings þáttr, xxii.) To these
Stefán Karlsson and Olafur Halldórsson added AM 1005 4to (sent by
Bishop Þorlákur Skúlason to Ole Worm in 1639; Stefán Karlsson,
Stafkrókar, 395-96); Delagardie nr 21 (Grænlandsannáll, probably
written about 1640 - sent to Stephanius the Younger in Denmark, who
died in 1650); AM 768 4to (once with AM 392, 395 and 398, see
above). The same man wrote the copy of Páls saga (Hand C) in Stock.
papp. 4:o nr 4, see p. 209* above. On Delagardie 21 and AM 768 see
Olafur Halldórsson (with acknowledgment to Stefán Karlsson), Græn-
land, 163-74, 203-04.
Most of the above description of the orthography and forms of H'
and H2 can be said to apply equally well to the few other texts by Þor-
leifur Jónsson and Jón Pálsson available in printed unnormalised edi-
tions. Of both it may be said that they were pretty consistent moder-
nisers, apparently not much affected by the scribal characteristics of
the text they were copying (cf. p. 225*, n. 4 above).
A sample from the end of Þorleifur Jónsson’s copy of Guðmundar
saga byskups in Stock. 4, starting fol. 86vl9, is given (with a few
printer’s errors) in Studia Centenalia, 101-07. The Fljótsdœla saga
text in 551 c is printed by Kálund in Fljótsdœla hin meiri, 2-111. 304
is used to supply the now defective text of Stock. 8 in Hákonar saga
Hákonarsonar, edited by Marina Mundt, 6-18, 21-26, 45-52, 57-71,
76-82 (to be read in conjunction with Knirk, Rettelser). Brief com-
ment on features of Þorleifur Jónsson’s writing is given by Kálund, vi-
ix, and Knirk, 13-14, and there is a detailed study of his work in AM
304 4to in Málblöndun, 74-98. Jón Pálsson’s usage is most substan-