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Mírmanns saga is on pp. 402-37. It has the title ‘Hjer sk<r>ifast Sagan af
Mírmant | Jarli og Sesseliu Vænu’, and the opening words are ‘A dögum
Klemens Páfa í Róm, rjedi’ etc. The chapters are numbered ‘1 Kapituli’ etc.
There are twenty-one of them, in the same places as in 633 (above, p.Lxm) and
related manuscripts, including Hd, from which this text appears to be derived.
The text in 2114 has been freely handled. Nonetheless, of the twenty-five
variants listed for Hd above, pxxxxi, nineteen appear in 2114 without any
noteworthy difference. In the other six, innovation has occurred in 2114, as
follows: at 57 2114 substitutes a much shorter sentence (quoted below, 56‘9); at
l44 it omits the phrase, at 9" the whole clause; at 1447‘8 it omits the clause
which appears as an addition in Hd; at 154 it has ‘hvort’ for ‘i hvort her-
bergi/mvsteri’; and at 2269 it omits both this clause and the next. That the
omissions at 1447"8 and 2269 bring the text back into agreement with texts ante-
cedent to Hd (i.e. 395 etc.), is merely a coincidence.
As a result of the free handling the text in 2114 has received, there are places
where a variant in 2114, usually an omission, coincides or partly coincides
with that in another manuscript. Some examples are noted in the list below.
An impression of how freely the text which appears in 2114 has been treat-
ed can be gained from the following full (but not complete) list of innovations
in the first three chapters (about one-tenth of the A/E text). Although there are
two notable additions at 260 and 315'16, the new wording in 2114 is usually
shorter.
S6, (181 g, 4859, 633, 395), Hd] 2114
1.4 Hann-Hirena; hann var kvongadur og átti jarls dóttur eina, er hét Katrin
Hd] Katrin hét 'drottn7 (above cancelled kona) hans hún var jalsdóttir
i .6-7 Þesso-ser; honum samtida var einn rikur jarl i Saxlandi, sá er Hermann hét,
hann var mikill fyrir sér Hd] Hermann hét einn ríkur jall í Saxlandi
1.7 Sæti-j; hafdi hann sitt adsetur i Hd] hann rjedi
1.7-9 ok-var; og þó hann bæri ei kóngs nafn, var hann lausn og band allra stór-
manna Hd] hann var rikur höfdingi
1.9- 10 Eingi-ransmadr; jllvirkjar máttu aungir þrifast i landinu Hd] illvirkjar þrif-
ust eý i hans riki
1.10- 11 godum ordum] metordum
1.11 lifa ok deyia sem hann var] honum þióna
1.12-14 Jarl-het; jarl var kvongadur madur, og átti þá konu er hét Brigida Hd] hans
dr(ottning) hét Brigida
1.21- 2 þat ... er hon vildi at væri; þad eitt ... sem hún vildi vera láta Hd] hennar
vilje ... t-
1.22- 3 rikis-henni; rikismenn ef þeir mæltu á móti Hd] ef menn mæltu móti vilja
hennar
1.23- 4 afhenni]-r
1.28 attu-fagnadar; áttu gnótt fjár og höfdu nóga veraldar sælu Hd] höfdu nóga
veraldar sælu