Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Blaðsíða 99
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III 4859 (=E), (633), 395] P
Reference is to the E-text.
27.15 hæversklegur (varíant 3793; hæverskur Hd, Sk)] hraustur
No known manuscript is derived from P.
HSk 16, 8vo
HSk 16 8vo, in Héraðsskjalasafn Skagfirðinga, contains just two sagas, Klar-
us saga keisarasonar on ff. l-20r (20v is blank), and Mírmanns saga on ff.
21-56, beginning on the fifth leaf of a gathering of six leaves. The gatherings
vary widely in size. They are stitched in a soft leather cover; the front of the
cover is narrow, not reaching the fore-edge, but the back has a large flap
which closes over most of the fore-edge and overlaps with the front cover.
The leaves are in good condition, but show signs of frequent handling.
The texts are in one unidentified hand of the latter part of the nineteenth
century.
There are three separate scribbles on f. lr, two numbers which have not
been explained (TB 215’ and ‘3021’), and the name ‘Jósef J. Björnsson’. This
is the agronomist who was a teacher and sometime principal of the agricul-
tural college at Hólar in Hjaltadalur. He died in 1946, aged 86; nothing is
known about his acquisition of the manuscript, which was given with his
library to Héraðsskjalasafn Skagfirðinga (information from Kristmundur
Bjarnason, who suggests that the manuscript might have been written for him,
or for his father (1817-87, a farmer in Miðfjörður, Húnavatnssýsla); cf.
Islenskir búfræðikandídatar, 182-3).
The title of the saga is ‘Sagann af | Mirmannt Jarli | Hermanns syni’, and
the opening words are ‘Á Dógum Klimens Páfa í Róm, rjeði’ etc. (in
‘Dógum’ ó is miswritten for ö; ‘Klimens’ sic, or even with í). The chapters
have headings, ‘ 1 Cap:’ etc. There are twenty-one of them, in the same places
as in 633 (above, p.LXin) and 395.
The following are examples of readings peculiar to Sk. At these points
other manuscripts thought to be derived from 395 retain broadly the readings
of 395.
I S6, (181g, 4859, 633), 395] Sk
1.25 gersimar] + i eigu þeirra
2.11 vid honum] til
3.6-7 enn-honum; enn so er sagt ad <ei> findust þeir marger er i sódle sæte fyrir
honum 395] og varð hann fleirstum meiri í þessari íþrótt svo nálega sat
eingin í söðle fyrir hönum
3.13-14 ok-ek2; og sie eg ej nie skil 395] + (see next)
3.14 yduarn] + enn aldrei g’etad (sic) sjed nein merki þar til