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26.55-6 Enn-giedi; enn Myr(mant) vard vid þetta gladur og tinde allre sorg ur huga
sier] 4- (haplography sier-sier)
Nine manuscripts, and part of a tenth, which are all of later date than 395,
contain texts which belong to the version first exemplified by 4859, in which
the A3-text is completed by the addition of the E-text ending.5 They have the
same chapter divisions as 633 and 395, and textual evidence, such as it is,
suggests that they are probably derived from 395 rather than 633.
They appear to be derived from a lost common original later than 395. The
text seems to have been handled freely there.
These manuscripts are described in the following pages.
Lbs 3793, 8vo
Lbs 3793 8vo was given to Landsbókasafnið in 1968 by the archivist Lárus
Sigurbjörnsson (d. 1974). There is no information there about its previous
history. It contains five items, listed on a loose sheet added to the manuscript,
in ink, with the third added as a correction in pencil, as:
Sagan af Mýrmanni jarli bls. 1-46.
Rímur af Sigurdi gangandi bls. 46-67
Rímur af Randver fagri bls. 68-125
Sagan af Hiedinn og Hlödver. bls. 125-146
Rímur af Mannfred og Tedóru orktar af dannebrogsmanni Sigfúsi Jóns-
syni bls. 146-180.
At the end of the fourth iteni on p. 146 the scribe has written ‘og endar so
þessa saga .... nu uppskrifud 1847’ (the dots are written in the manuscript).
Although the appearance of the handwriting varies occasionally, it may be
that one scribe has written all five items.
The manuscript is in dilapidated condition, with the boards, flyleaves and
gatherings all detached from each other. There are ten gatherings of eight
leaves and one, the last, of twelve. The last gathering is inserted before the
last leaf of gathering 10. It can be seen that this resulted from a mistake in the
process of writing the last item. The saga ends on p. 146, the recto of the se-
cond leaf of gathering 10, and it appears that when the rímur were written, the
scribe took leaves 2-7 out of the gathering in order to write them, and on
reaching the end of the seventh leaf forgot that there was one more leaf of the
gathering available and went on to the next gathering. When the rímur were
finished, the last leaf of gathering 11 (later paginated 181-182 in pencil) and
5 To these ten must be added the replacement leaf in 45.