Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Síða 68
LXVl
III 4859 (= E)] 633
References are to the E-text.
26.13 og myskun] 4-
26.23 döme] + og hialpa mier
26.45 valldi sleppa] hpndumm komast and + og ferdast so leider sý'nar
26.48 kiæte] + og sie gladur
26.50 hann] + sat i og (repeatedfrorn earlier clause)
26.59 allre] mikillre vegsemd og
26.59 drucked] leikid og druckid
26.67 af þier sagdi hann] +
26.75 til mijn giprt hafa] mier veitta
27.39 j þeirra heim komu] +
27.50-1 allra þeirra er under sölunne fædst hafa] +
For texts derived from 633, see in the first instance 395, which is described
next.
AM 395, fol.
AM 395 fol. is a large and handsome manuscript, containing twenty-three sa-
gas (listed in Kálund 1888-94, 304-6; for a succinct account of the manu-
script, see also Jónas Kristjánsson 1952, xvm-xix). The texts, in large
handwriting, are well set out, within a frame, with wide margins (less wide
towards the end, but still sufficient). Each saga begins on a recto, all but four
of them after a blank page or pages. Chapters are clearly indicated, and verses
are set out in verse lines. The front cover has on it a title in gold léaf naming
some of the contents, and at the foot ‘JOH: ARNÆUS. | 1766’. This is Jón
Árnason (Smæ, III 218-23), who lived at Ingjaldshóll and was sýslumaður of
Snæfellsnes from 1754 until his death in 1777; he will have been the first
owner and the patron for whom the manuscript was written.
The manuscript had earlier been intended for use as a court record. A gold-
leaf title on what is now the back cover, though scrubbed, can still be made
out as ‘S[NÆF]ELLS NESS | SYSSLU | HERAD[S] RETTAR | [PRO]TO-
COLL’. There are holes in the inner corner of the leaves and the cover which
were intended for tapes for a seal, and the position of the holes in the leaves
relative to those in the cover shows that the cover has been taken off and re-
versed. Fragments of tape intended for holding the book closed still remain in
other holes. According to Morten Grpnbech (unpublished notes), the quality
of the binding in several respects indicates that the manuscript was originally
bound in Denmark, but both titles, old and new, seem to have been stamped
on the cover in Iceland, by the same bookbinder.
The first leaf of the manuscript has been pasted to the cover, and there is a
number 2 on its verso in the top outer corner which is the first visible number
of a pagination. The pagination is erratic, the numbers 55, 177, 530-9 and