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Mírmanns saga, the second work in the manuscript, fills seven gatherings,
six of four leaves and one of two, and is paginated 1-52. The first one or two
words on a page are often written slightly apart from the rest of the line, pro-
viding an unusual kind of catchword, additional to the normal kind at the foot.
The fifth gathering was made from a piece of paper which had on it the ad-
dress ‘Mr Thordur Jonsson | ij Flagveltu’, now divided over pp. 36 and 40.
There is a colophon on p. 52, ‘Endad skrifa (sic) þann 25 Februarius (sic) \
flagueltu Þordur Jonsson | 1851 | a halfummanudi klorad’. The first work in
the manuscript is in the same hand and has a similar colophon, with the date
‘þann 10 Februarius’. Flagvelta is the farm Flagbjarnarholt, in Rangárvalla-
sýsla. Four other manuscripts by the same man are known, written at Flag-
velta or at an unidentified Móakot (where he describes himself as ‘vinnu-
madur’).
The title of the saga here is ‘Hier Skrifast | Sagann Af Mirmann’. The chap-
ters are numbered 1-21, the divisions occurring in the same places as in 1000
(above, p.xxix).
The text is secondary, derived from 59. 771 has the same reading in all the
instances of variants of 59 (= A6) listed above, p.Li, and agrees with it closely
throughout. The innovations in 771 consist mostly of single-word or short-
phrase substitutions, such as ‘I þann tima’ for ‘Þa’ at A l5, ‘þo hann bæri ecki’
for ‘þo at (4- A6) annar bæri’ l8, and ‘kongar’ for ‘klerkar’ 119. These are quite
frequent. There are also small omissions, sometimes making the sentence un-
satisfactory, sometimes not, e.g. single words omitted in the first chapter are
‘þrifaz’ l9, ‘aa’ ll6and ‘bratt’ l23.
The following are some of the other variants found in 771.
I
A'; A6] 771
1.14
2.59
4.12
het] + Hun var
fai] gieti eda fai
med honum] sem M(ir)m(ann) fildu (repeatedfrom a variant which A6, 771
and others have in the previous clause)
eykcr hann (+ hana A6) enn med godó (ms now partly defective A6)] +
jarteinir-gerdi; um þær j[ar]dteiknir [sem Guds sonur giordi]] +
gek-sinni; giekk <med> modur sinni] geingd<i> modur sinni. Geck hann
med modur sinni
er honum kom j; sem [Adam k]om i] sem adur er kominn er i
4.41
7.35
8.29
9.68-9
II
11.99
12.68
12.66-7
A2, A3; A6] 771
sier-bolur; sier hvor fiell hluturinn til jardar h0[fudid og] bolurinn] hann
fiell daudur til jardar
lepra heiter aa latino, enn lykþra aa vora tvngv (ms now partly defective A6)]
likþra heiter
fann-olli; fann hann þad ad þvi olli] olli þui