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INTRODUCTION
Var vigðr Jon byskvp hinn helgi til Hóla á Islanndi fyrstr af Qtzvri
erchibyskvpi i Lvndi at tilskipan Paschalis pape eptir kosningi
Gitzvrar byskvps af Skálahollti. ok allra lanndzmanna samþykki á
Islanndi.
This reproduces the bare facts covered by S ch. 7, L chs. 20-22, H chs.
13-15. It happens that neither S nor H names Lund in this context,
while L does so in some form on four occasions (L 21/6 and 23, 22/7
and 30). While it may hardly be necessary to posit a literary source for
such an elementary piece of general knowledge, it should be noted
that Hungrvaka, Bysk.s., 87/9-10, reads ‘ok var hann vígðr til byskups
af Qzuri erkibyskupi í Lundi í Skáneyju’; and ‘at tilskipan Paschalis
pape’ in the annal quoted above is reminiscent of ‘ad hans skipan’ in
the Hungrvaka C1 text in AM 205 fol., though the status of this unique
Hungrvaka reading is uncertain. It is of more interest that the end of
the annal entry might appear to reflect the wording of a text like H
13/15-17: ‘þa kaus Gyssur Byskup Jon prest Augmunndarsson. med
samþycki allra lærdra manna. og þar med alls lanndz lijdz’. This is in
contrast to S 7/18-19: ‘... með samþycki allra lærðra manna. ok
vlærðra iNorðlendinga fiorðvngi’; and L 20/17-18: ‘... meðr blidu
samþycki lærdra ok leik manna I Norðlendinga fiorðungi’. (Hungr-
vaka, Bysk.s., 87/6-7, has ‘var síðan valðr til byskups af guði ok góðum
mpnnum Jón prestr Qgmundarson’.) The passage in Konungsannáll is
in the hand of the main scribe of GKS 2087 4to, who is thought to
have done his work not long after 1306, the year of his last entry (Isl-
Ann., xi). Since the S and L texts must be more authentic in their de-
tail at this point, the similarity between Konungsannáll and H should
probably be put down to accident. Influence of the annal on H (and on
the text in Hungrvaka C1) is on the other hand not inconceivable.
(ii) Konungsannáll, s.a. 1076, records: ‘SQnvnndr hinn fróði kom
ór scóla’ (IslAnn., 110), expanded in Lögmannsannáll, s.a. 1078, to
‘Sémundr hinn frode kom or skola med aeggian Jons Ögmundar sonar
er sidan vard byskop a Holum’ (IslAnn., 251; cf. the derivative entries
in Flateyjarannáll, s.a. 1076, Flat. III, 509, and Oddverjaannáll, s.a.
1077, IslAnn., 471). It remains uncertain whether ‘med aeggian’ de-
pends on the limited report in S ch. 4, H ch. 11, where use of the verb
spenja could account for it, or on the extended account of the Sæ-
mundar þáttr in L, chs. 16-17, where spenja also occurs but where