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likely descent for the manuscript thereafter to the known owners in most re-
cent times is suggested in Skrá.
Mírmanns saga is item 19 in the manuscript, and occupies pp. 673-712.
The title is ‘Sagann af Myr-|mannt\ and the opening words are ‘A allda |
daVgum Clem|ens Páva i Romaborg ried’ etc. The first line is written
extremely large (larger than the title), the second also very large. Each chap-
ter has the first line of text written large. The chapters are numbered, except
the first (‘II Cap.’ etc). There are only twenty-one chapter divisions; com-
pared with 4859 (from which it is thought to derive), this manuscript has no
chapter divisions at A422, 6', 14\ 16', 19'and 21'. As part of this reduction in
the number of chapter divisions, 633 has removed one of the innovations of
181 g, passed on through 4859, namely the new chapter at 422.
Examples of innovations in 4859 have been given on pp.LX-LXi. 633 agre-
es with 4859 in almost all instances. In the few places where it does not, it has
a new variant of its own:
179 (= A2), 181 g (= A3); 4859] 633
12.54 giefit; byrlad] bruggad
15.57 jurtum; smyrslum edur jurtum] smýrlslumm
16.17-18 ernúmedkonum 181g; er hann nu med konginum] -r
17.68 þeir2; þeir, klerkarner] þesser klerkar
20.64-5 CCC. heidingia; margann heidingia ei færri enn ccc.] margan heidinga allt
þar til þeir hófdu drepid CCC
22.35 og matt; -f] Whole clause wanting
24.28 sógumm og fógrum dæmumm; fpgrum og fordijrum dæmum] fógrumm og
fordýrumm ordum og dæmum
Some other readings of 4859 have been mentioned on pp.Lix-LX in the dis-
cussion of the relation between 4859 and 181 g. At these points too 633
agrees with 4859, or has some slight further innovation (at 1182 633 has
‘hleipr’ for ‘reid framm’, and at 759 it has ‘eg hugda’ for ‘hann vardi’).
Nowhere in 633 is there a reading which would run counter to the assumption
that its text is derived from 4859.
There are at least two places where the way the text has been written in
4859 seems to be the source of the reading in 633. At 1712'13 the reading of
181 g (the same as 179, but divided over the line-end and with the following
spelling) is:
Borg þeirj | A pulj er capra h.
In 4859 the reading is:
borg þeirre ■ A puli V heiter, | Capra,