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The 134 leaves of the manuscript (excluding the title-page) are paginated
continuously throughout, with few mistakes. Items after the first also have
their own paginations, in pencil.
The main part of the manuscript contains five sagas and two sets of rímur.
The opening work is Mírmanns saga, on pp. 61-89 (two pages are left un-
numbered after p. 71). It has a colophon in code, which is then repeated as
‘endad ad skrifa dag 29 Agust 1869 af | Jónasi Jóns syni’. Other colophons
further on have dates later in 1869, and add the phrase ‘á Hörgsholti’. Below
the unfinished rímur, on the last used page, there is written: ‘Jónas Jónsson
reit Anno MCCCLXX (sic)’. At this time Jónas Jónsson was nineteen years
old, and living with his parents in Arnessýsla; he was later well-known as a
writer and editor, and doorman of the Parliament building and the University
(ÍÆ, III 339).
The title of the saga is ‘Sagan af Myrmanni Jarli’, and the opening words
are ‘Á Dögum Klements rysa i Róma ryki rédi’ etc. The text is written within
a ruled frame, and there is a running title ‘Mýrmanns saga’, also spelled with
‘í’, on pp. 62-5 and 80-9. Chapters are nunrbered ‘1 kapituli’ etc., written with
capital K after the first instance.
The title of the saga and the first chapter heading have been written again,
above the original, more prominently and in purple ink. The original title and
some names in the text as far as chapter 6, and the opening words of chapters
1-8 and 17-22, have been crudely decorated with red and blue pencil.
A strip has been torn off the bottom of the first leaf. Several complete lines
and parts of lines of text have been lost on pp. 61 and 62.
There are twenty-two chapter divisions, a unique arrangement, which
seems to be the result of a change of exemplar (not necessarily in the copying
of 1305 itself). The first sixteen occur at the same places as in 633 and related
manuscripts, including 3793 (i.e. omitting chapter divisions at A 422, 61, 141,
16' and 19‘; cf. above p.LXin), and for this part of the saga (as far as approxi-
mately A 2042) the text seems to be derived from 3793. The rest of the saga,
however, has a text of A4 type rather than A3, and seems to be derived from 45
(above, p.xxxm); its remaining six chapter divisions occur at the same places
as in 45 and other manuscripts of the same type. The two parts are referred to
as 13051 and 13052. For consideration of the text in 13052 see p.cxm.
13051 has the same reading as 3793 in almost all the variants listed above
on pp.LXXi-LXXin for 3793 as far as 2024'5. Where it does not, innovation has
occurred in 13051; for example, at 1758"9 13051 has the first part of the reading
in 3793 (‘og i gégnum og rendi höggid i lær jalls’), but omits the rest. It also
agrees with 3793 in many minor variants that have not been listed on pp.LXXi-
lxxiii. On the other hand, there are very few places where 1305' agrees or
partly agrees with a text antecedent to 3793 (i.e. 395), except for minor cor-