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they also omit the preceding sentence the agreement might be thought fortui-
tous (818'20, 2655-6; both quoted above). But at least they do not agree with 633,
and perhaps these instances should not be entirely discounted.
There are just two instances in the list of thirty where the four manuscripts
are more like 633 than 395.
1913
269
633 leike vel tafl
395 tefle vel og leike vel tafl
3793 leiki vel (So Hd, Sk)
P tebli vel
633 sett
395 stunginn og sett
3793 settan (refers to hiálm)
Hd sett (So P, Sk)
So much reduction of the text has occurred in the archetype that it is reason-
able to assume that that has happened in both these instances too.
In all the other twenty-one instances the four manuscripts agree with 395,
or three of them do and the fourth has an innovation of its own.
They all agree exactly at l10, 315, 420, 625, ll33, 144 5, 15', 1515, 168, 225 and
22i2, and also, though less exactly, at 92 (‘goda hofi’), 917 (‘bodi’) and 16101'
(‘hpnum ad lide er’).
Three agree with each other and represent the archetype, and agree with
395, in all but one of the remaining instances. The references are as follows;
the reading of the fourth manuscript is given in brackets. I9 (but: ‘í því landi’
Sk), 215 (‘allt’ Sk), 523 (all have ‘eptir’ for ‘til’; ‘menn sína eptir kongs dóttur’
Sk), 1214'20 (‘ef mögulegt væri’ Sk), 1430 (‘a Fracklande’ 3793) and 2460 (‘vil
eg ráda umm hennar kipr’ 3793, and alters the continuation). In three of these,
l9, 1430 and 2460, innovation in the fourth manuscript has given it a reading
which is like but not the same as that in 633, but there is no significance in
this.
The final instance is at 1195'6. Here the omission in 395, coupled with some
other changes, has left the reading: ‘af halsbiórgina og hóndina i óxlinni’.
Slightly different attempts at repairing the text appear in three of the manu-
scripts, none of them containing the omitted words. The fourth has a much
more extensive attempt: ‘á hálsbjörginn og tók þau i sundur, kom þá sverdid á
öxlina og tók af handlegginn’ (Sk).
Considered individually many of the points of difference between 633 and
395 are slight, but the consistent pattern of agreement between the four manu-
scripts and 395 makes it likely that they are derived from 395 rather than 633.