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570-99 not being used, and it stops with 780. There then follows a pencil pa-
gination on every tenth page, 789-969, with other occasional numbers: 861
(for no apparent reason; altered from 860), 875 (beginning of a saga), 945
(ditto), 973 (blank page after the end of the last saga), and 974 (list of con-
tents). Another pagination in pencil, in the bottom outer corner, begins with
781 and is continuous to 972, except that it does not number the pages already
numbered at the top. After p. 974 there are six unnumbered pages (not includ-
ing the paste-down), the fifth of which contains another list of contents, the
others being blank.
The gatherings are of twelve leaves, with the following exceptions. The
first has lost three leaves at the beginning (before what is now the paste-
down). The last seems to have been reduced to three singles and two bifolia,
the last two leaves of which have been pasted down, one on top of the other.
Gathering 38 (pp. 921-48) contains fourteen leaves, and must have been made
that way. Gathering 4 (pp. 68-87) has only ten leaves; it may have been made
that way, but another explanation is possible. The scribe of this part of the
manuscript stopped writing on p. 76 (the fifth leaf of the gathering), and left
the rest of the gathering blank for the missing end of Ljósvetninga saga\ the
next scribe started Valla-Ljóts saga on what is now p. 82 (now the eighth
leaf); if there were originally twelve leaves, there was a bifolium blank in the
centre of the gathering, and someone, the first scribe perhaps, has taken it out.
The sagas appear to have been the work of four scribes. One of them is Þor-
kell Sigurðsson (Smæ, III 354), who lived at Hamrar, but did this copying at
Akrar, both in Mýrasýsla; the others have not been identified. Their participa-
tion in the copying was as follows:
Scribe A Pp. 5-76. Ljósvetninga saga. Pp. 77-81 blank.
Scribe B Pp. 82-107. Valla-Ljóts saga. Pp. 108-11 blank. P. 82 is in a
gathering begun by scribe A. Page 111 is the last of a gathering.
Scribe C Pp. 112-352, as follows:
112-15 blank, the first two leaves of a gathering.
116-88. Svarfdœla saga. There is a colophon containing the
date 1764 and the initials ‘ÞS’ or ‘ÞSs’.
189-248. Flóamanna saga and Gunnars saga Keldugnúpsfífls.
249-309. Finnboga saga ramma. There are differences in the
handwriting here, but the different features recur to some ex-
tent in the handwriting in Rask 8a, in which the scribe has gi-
ven his name as Þorkell Sigurðsson (cf. the colophon below).
P. 310, a verso, is blank.