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INTRODUCTION
þetta’, II 205/29, are the only ones I have noted. The usage was not for-
eign to Þorleifur Jónsson and Jón Pálsson, cf. VIII (a) 14, (b) 20, but the
coincidence of H1 and H2 at 31/23 probably means it was in their exem-
plar.
(e) The conj. þótt + particle at, found in Gþ (L 13/8 t.n.), is recorded
in only two early instances in AMOrdbog, one in the Hómilíubók,
115/11, and one in Þiðriks saga (1908-11), 41/20, the former in Stock.
perg. 4:o nr 15, dated c. 1200, the latter in Stock. perg. fol. nr 4, dated
1275-1300. Such isolated exx. can be reasonably regarded as inadver-
tent. The usage seems likely to be more typical of the late medieval pre-
ference for a plethora of particles. It is found in NT Odds (Málið, 146),
and in Guðbrandsbiblía, though there “ziemlich selten” (Bandle, 459).
The points noted above suggest that the nearest we can get to the date
of the exemplar of H1 and H2 is towards or about 1500, possibly later
still. Vellum manuscripts from this period were certainly available at
Hólar: Sverris saga and Hákonar saga in Stock. perg. fol. nr 8, the lat-
ter part of which is closely dated to c. 1500 (M. Mundt, Hákonar saga,
xxxv), were copied by Þorleifur Jónsson and Bjöm á Skarðsá, and Laur-
entius saga in AM 180 b fol., which is reckoned to be not older than
1500 (Laurentius saga, xxviii-xxxi), was copied by Jón Pálsson. The
writers of those texts did not modemise as freely as the writer of the
exemplar of the H' and H2 copies of Jóns saga. I have abandoned any
hope of detecting clues in these extant seventeenth-century copies that
might lead to an assessment of the date of that exemplar’s exemplar.