Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Síða 117
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long to a set of twenty volumes, Fornmannasögur Norðurlanda, Lbs 1491-
1510 4to; they have the numbers 1494 and 1506. The third one, owned by
Böðvar Kvaran in Reykjavík, belongs to another set, with the same title, the
extent of which is not known. Böðvar Kvaran has volumes 2, 3,4, 5 and 8; the
volume containing Mírmanns saga is the first of these, and as these volumes
comprise the first section in the typewritten list kept at Stofnun Arna Magnús-
sonar of his manuscripts, it will here be called BK A:I.
All three have texts of Mírmanns saga which are derived from the edition
published by Einar Þórðarson in 1884, and an account of EÞ may appropriate-
ly be given here, before the description of these manuscripts.
The text in EÞ
Einar Þórðarson acknowledges in a postscript that the saga is printed from
EK. He says further:
I þessari útgáfu er fylgt að mestu útgáfu Kölbings, en stafsetning hefur
verið samræmd meir enn hann gerir, þó eigi til fullnustu.
EÞ follows the top text in EK (with one exception, given below), correspond-
ing to the A-text in the present edition, as far as A 2494, and to the E-text there-
after. The regularization of the spelling referred to extends also to word-
forms, and the expression ‘að mestu’ is explained by the fact that there are a
good many possibly deliberate small changes, such as the omission of ‘hing-
at’ A 1133, or the addition of ‘hafa’ after ‘þér’ A 1261. Some of them are neces-
sary amendments. There are also accidental changes.
The following list contains the most significant variants found in EÞ:
EKJ EÞ
A 1.2 Um eldadóms dögum] A ofanverðum dögum
A2.22 sælir] ríkir
A8.11-12 En alnauðigr fer ek, ok illa segir mér hugr um] -f-
A 11.78 ógn ok] -r
A 12.50 skálinni] + ok fékk jarli. Enn hann tók við (from the bottom text in EK)
A 13.14 fyrir] mikit
A 14.26 með sér] bæði
E 26.10 á íring jarl] +
Lbs 1494, 4to
Lbs 1494 4to is named on the title-page as the fourth volume in the set, and
according to the title-page the contents were ‘Skrifaðar eptir ymsum ritum
árit | M.D.C.C.C.L.X.X.X.V.I.I.I.’. The validity of this date 1888 is discussed
below, p.cxx.