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III 4859 (=E), 633, 395] 3793
References are to the E-text
25.4 Bar þad rnig þö (þá 633, 395) wijda] enn þad beit raig vida
26.8-9 laugud rauda gulle ... sett (stunginn og sett 395)] hiáim allann gulle lagdann
... settann
26.10-11 þad-menn] þui munt þu jlla eira leingur ad fá ecki þinn vilia framm á mier
26.21 Jrungur jall bad] Jrungur brá þá krossmarki firir sig og hann bad
26.31 og 'þegar j giegnum (i giegnumm hann 633, 395) so ad feste i herklædunum
og hof] og sleppur hun ut af og á hans gódu herklædi og gnistist jarlin nidur
vid spdulinn og lá vid óviti og i þeirri s0mu svipan hóf Jrungur
26.53 Hann-herra; naudsyn veldur þvi herra s(eigir) hann 395] nu er jeg hier
staddur herra
26.82-3 Hefur-helvijte] og hefur þu þar firir med tekid þessar qvalir frá minni sjdu
enn ef þu jdrast nu ecki jllverkanna mundtu eýlýfa qv0l verda ad ijda eptir
daudann med þeim fordæmdi (sic) i helvite
27.8 þikiunst kienna hier] fæ | fæg hier ad (altered, probably from ei) kinna mier
27.13- 14 Rogerus-kiempa] þad vilde hann seigir Rógirus og haf silki hiup jfir þier
og kiem eg þier suo á vald Jrungs
27.14- 15 Myrmant mælltte] og þá seigir Mirmann er hann sier jarl
27.17-18 Sijdann-þeir] og bidur hann nu jarl ad taka vid honumm og suo gi0rdi hann
The manuscripts which contain texts which are probably derived from
3793 are 1446, 1305 (part) and 45 (one replacement leaf), and these are de-
scribed next.
Lbs 1446, 8vo
Lbs 1446 8vo is a collection of six sagas, the second being accompanied by
three short tales; the titles are quoted in Skrá, II 283-4. Each saga is complete
in its own gatherings, and is separately paginated. Five of them are dated in
colophons, with dates in 1864, 1868, 1870 and 1871, but they are not in the
order in which they were written. The date 1864 occurs only once, and is writ-
ten above the line, as a correction or afterthought; it is in the colophon to the
fifth item, which happens to be Mírmanns saga: ‘Skrifuð og enduð 20.
Febrúar T 864' af H.J.S.’
H.J.S. has given his full name Halldór Jónsson in fourplaces. He wrote all of
the texts in the manuscript, except the second half of the third item; the scribe
of the latter has given his name at the end of it as E. Jónsson. Halldór Jónsson
is known as the writer of several other manuscripts in Landsbókasafnið, one of
them again in association with E. Jónsson, and in the index to the catalogue
(Skrá, III 507) he is located ‘í Leirárgörðum’, which is in Borgarfjarðarsýsla.
Ownership of the manuscript is claimed on the pastedown at the back, in
pencil, upside down: ‘Guðmundur Steinsson | á þessa Bók það mælir min
(miswritten) undskrift (sic)'. On the same page there is also, in purple ink:
‘GSteinsson | frá | Akranesi’, and in black a scribble, possibly ‘G Sts (?)