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10. The title is ‘Hier biriar Sbguna af Mírma-|nni’, and the opening words are
‘A dpgum Clemens páfa rédi einn | ágiætur kóngur fyrir Fracklandi sem’ etc.
The text in 45 is called A7 in this edition. Except for the new leaf, it is si-
milar to A4 (the text in 1000), and variants are printed from it for comparison
with 1000 where this provides the text (A 2495-2640). For consideration of the
text on the replacement leaf see pp.LXXvm-LXXix.
2. Relation of the manuscripts described above
The descriptions of 179 and 181 g above indicate that they contain texts which
are derived (or copied directly) from S6 as far as it extended at the time when
they were written. This section begins with a description of how each differs
from S6 in the first part of the saga. It continues with a comparison of the two
texts with each other in the second part of the saga, which is now missing from
S6. Here use is made of the four other manuscripts described in section 1, anti-
cipating the discussion of them that follows.
The section concludes with a discussion of the texts in 1000, 634, 59 and
45. It is suggested that they are derived from a lost common original, that this
common original was derived from S6, and derived from it independently of
179 and 181g, and that the ending of the saga it contained may have been de-
rived from S6 when it was complete. The relation of the four texts to each
other, and of each to their common original, is also discussed.
179
Where 179 can be compared with S6, it is a good copy of it. JE deserves re-
spect for admitting directly or indirectly on occasions that he has been unable
to read the original, and generally for greater faithfulness to the text in front
of him than many other copyists. Nonetheless, as well as some mistakes
which may be attributable to the condition of S6, there are some innovations
in 179 which seem to be due to inaccuracy or deliberate alteration. (There are
also necessary corrections, such as supplying ‘fosturs’ at 33 and ‘ei’ at 312.)
1.12
1.20-
1.23
1.23
1.25
1.2
1.4
1.5
S6] 179
Words after papa and before var2] 4- (space left)
Hirena] 4 (space left)
nordan]4
madr2] 4
far er vamma vanr] opt eru flpgd j fógrv skinne
baronar eda jarllar eda riddarar] edur giórdu
bratt] verra
þegar hon giordi] þa hun bod giordi