Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Blaðsíða 76

LXXIV
Bjargy (?)’. Someone presumably an owner has written inside the front cover
in black ink ‘Fólk er ámint | um ad skrifa ekki á | Bokina’.
A flyleaf has been removed at the front of the manuscript. A few letters can
be seen on the remaining strip.
Mírnianns saga, paginated 1-74, occupies seven gatherings of four leaves
of blue paper, one gathering of eight leaves of white paper, and one leaf of
blue paper the inner edge of which comes out before the preceding gathering.
The title is ‘Hjer Skrifast | Sagann af | Mírmanni Jarli og Sesselju’, and the
opening words are ‘Á dogum Kljements Páfa í Róm rjeði’ etc. The first chap-
ter has no heading; the rest are numbered, sometimes with the number written
as a word, e.g. ‘Annar kapítuli’, ‘4. kapítuli’. There are twenty-one chapter-
divisions, occurring in the same places as in 633 (above, p.LXin) and related
manuscripts, including 3793, from which this text appears to be derived.
1446 has the same reading as 3793, exactly or with some slight innovation, in
all the variants listed above on pp.LXXi-LXXin for 3793, and in many minor
variants not listed. It is probable that 1446 is derived from 3793, since instances
in which 1446 agrees with a text antecedent to 3793 (i.e. 395) are not decisive.
For example: after ‘set’ at 1127 3793 adds ‘á medal þeirra’; the phrase is not in
1446, but this can be because it has been omitted there (especially as there are
many small omissions in 1446). The reverse also occurs; for example, at 522
‘fram' is omitted in 3793 but is present in 1446, but this can be due to re-intro-
duction of the word in 1446. In the absence of a decisive example to the con-
trary, inalong text, it may be assumed that 1446 is probably derived from 3793.
The following are examples of innovations in 1446.
I
S6, (181 g, 4859, 633, 395), 3793] 1446
1.10
1.15
1.23-4
3.13
3.14
4.18
5.2-3
6.2
alla] -r
yfir liz; ifirlitumm 3793] sínum
bratt af henni] 4-
hefi] + opt
ok eigi skil ek; nie skil 3793] +
at hann hafdi þes (+ 3793) ærna (+ peninga 3793) gnott] +
baronar] + og greifar
Svo-fridari; Suo er sagt ad kongs dóttir væri einginn frjdari 3793] + (one
complete line in 3793)
goda vorra; goda vorra og vora 3793] sfna
at svo vóxno (vpndu 3793) mali] +
voro-honum; voru h0numm valdir til fildar 3793] með honum
ok mart hans (+ 3793) manna] +
Ok svo giorir hon] +
mæla] + við föður þinn
ok-Ylfingr; og þar af var þad Jlfingur kallad 3793] +
enn-mids; enn þettad vofn (sic) hefur jarl i hendi sier hv0rt hann fór og nú
7.15
7.27
8.16-17
8.29
8.42
8.43
9.9-10
9.11-12