Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Side 89
LXXXVII
8: - 87-114, Henrik heilráði. Paginated 1-56.
9: - 115-134, Mírmant. Paginated 57-96, with 96 effaced.
10: - 135-164, Sigurðr snarfari. Paginated 57-100, then 2-17.
11: - 165-170r, Fástus og Ermena. No pagination.
12: - 170v, Ásmundr víkingr. Title only, and that cancelled.
The gatherings are loose, but in good condition. They consist of four leaves
in all cases except five, which have only two leaves. Items 2-7 cross gathering
boundaries, but each of the others is separate. It seems that both 9 and 10 have
been paginated to follow item 8.
The texts are written in one nineteenth-century hand throughout, which has
not been identified.
An owner has written in blue pencil on f. 114v, ‘Bok þessa A Med riettu |
Þórdur Þórarinsson | i Itri Bug’, and ‘Þordur’ on f. 115r. There is an Ytri-
Bugur in Fróðárhreppur, Snæfellsnes (part of the old Neshreppur innan Enn-
is); it was occupied by a Þórður Þórarinsson c. 1900-19 (Byggðir Snœfells-
ness, 387).
There is a scribble on f. 170v, not fully understandable, and a list of names,
apparently four brothers, ‘Guðmunður Þórðarson | Sigur Jon (sic, for Sigur-
jón) Kristian Þórðarson | Þórarin Þórðarson | Johan Þorberg Þorðarson’, all in
the same hand, which is not that of the writer of the texts. The censuses of
1901 and 1910 between them list under Ytri-Bugur three sons of Þórður
Þórarinsson who have names agreeing with these. The absence of the fourth
can be explained: neither census names at this point all the living children,
and of course the dead are not named though their number is given (Manntal
á íslandi 1901 and Manntal á íslandi 1910, in Þjóðskjalasafn íslands).
Mírmanns saga, ff. 115-34, has the title ‘Sagan af Mirmant jalli og Setselju
vænu’. There are no chapter headings or numbers at all. Some chapter divi-
sions are shown, often meagrely; there is space left, or a dash, or slightly lar-
ger writing. But of the twenty-one chapter divisions which might be expected,
two are hardly indicated (A 5', 26'), and two have disappeared without leav-
ing so much as a full stop or capital letter (A 4', 81). There is one new place (A
186) which is marked with a dash of the kind which occurs elsewhere at custo-
mary chapter divisions. (The treatment of chapters in other sagas varies; some
are like Mírmanns saga, others more normal.)
The text seems to be derived from Hd. It has the variants listed for Hd
above, pxxxxi, with minor innovations in just two places: at ll55'6 4488 has
‘brádr’ for ‘brádrádur’ and adds ‘á’ after ‘verid’, and at 1450 it has ‘burt reid
sund og skot’, omitting ‘skilming’. It also agrees with Hd in other slight vari-
ants not listed. It never agrees in a significant way with a text antecedent to
Hd (i.e. 395).