Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Síða 101

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22.57 gina yfir þessari flugo (variant in 3793, but Hd and P are like 395; all then
have an addition)] t (but has the addition)
23.7 og'-snióll (og setur þar á m0rg fógur !og ágiæt (4 Hd, P) ord otherpost-395
mss)] med mörgum fögrum og blýdum ordum
24.16-17 þar ried fyrer jarl (variant in 3793, but Hd and P are like 395)] þar var sagt
ad rjedi fyrir lydinu jall einn
24.18 vikinngr-þessu (vjkingur mikill og frægur 3793, og frægur vikingur og
mikill Hd, P)] og mikill hermadur
24.59-60 Suo-hennar; so og ef kongsdotter verdur hóndumm tekinn 395 (svo lika (og
Hd, P) ef Katrjn drotning verdur tekinn other post-395 míí)] Líka vil eg ad
Katrín drottníng sje handtekinn og fjötrud
III 4859 (=E), (633), 395] Sk
References are to the E-text
26.31 feste i herklædunum (variant in 3793, but Hd and P are like 395)] fast stód
í brinjunni
26.86 sidur-svijvirding] er svívirdu merki í útlöndum
No known manuscript is derived from Sk.
Relation ofthe manuscripts described above
Of the ten manuscripts which have been described in the preceding pages, six
are held to be derived from two of the other four. The four are 3793, Hd, P and
Sk, and consideration now turns to the relationship of these four manuscripts
to each other and to their probable source.
From the variants already listed for each manuscript it is obvious that none
of them can be the source of any of the others. There is not sufficient evidence
in the texts to suggest that any two of them have a special relationship against
the other two, or any three against the other one. But they do agree on many
substantial innovations compared with the text in 395, their probable source.
This suggests that they are derived from a lost common original later than 395
in which these innovations were made.
Not all further innovations in the four individual texts are recorded in the
quotations in the following list, though most are; they do not affect the con-
clusion. The quotations are from 3793, the oldest of the four manuscripts.
For the sake of readability, and with the justification that they do not bear
on the argument, the intermediate stages between the printed text and 395
(e.g. in the first part, the readings of 181 g, 4859 and 633) are not shown. Si-
milarly, many minor variants in 395 are not quoted, though their existence is
mentioned.
A fairly full selection of the innovations is given for the first three chapters;
thereafter the selection is somewhat less full. The list is long, as much to illus-
trate how changed the text had become in this archetype as to prove its former
existence.