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dle voice, e.g. villtuzt 915, giordizt 922, snyzt 949, gafzt 981, treystumzt 1058;
there are no instances of st, but there are two of z alone, giordiz 1093, hugdiz
20138. In the ending of the superlative, e.g. dyrligaztur 99'10, skiötazt 9102. As
the ending of the genitive, after consonant groups or t, e.g. mannz 956 (abbre-
viated mnz), landz 961, jallz 977, vitz 987, spiótz 1076 (móz also occurs, 1416);
but not after single ð, e.g. Guds 916. There also occur illzkv 911, navdzyn (!)
19134.
The conjunction eðr or eða is never written out in this text. The abbrevia-
tion has been expanded as æ(da), 92 etc.
The spelling svo or suo occurs four times, 1224, 1324, 1616 and 1979, the first
three of them at the line-end; otherwise the spelling is so, 94 etc., and twice só,
177, 20l33.
The preposition ór/úr is always spelled with v (= u), e.g. vr 911 (20 instan-
ces), vr 915 (5 instances).
Three features may point to the second half of the fifteenth century rather
than the first as the period when the manuscript was written: the frequency of
ei before gi, gj (though e is still the commoner spelling), the regularity of g
for final k, and the regularity of úr for ór. Cf. Seelow 1981, 105-6, on the dat-
ing of a different manuscript by comparison with diplomas down to 1450.
The text of Mírmanns saga in 593 is printed as text B in this edition.
The transcription procedure is the same as for text A (above, p.xxn), but a
further word is necessary about punctuation. Punctuation is frequently miss-
ing in 593, noticeably often where the end of a sentence coincides with the
end of a line, and at the ends of chapters. In these places it has been supplied
as a matter of course, but it has not been supplied where it is missing at the
end of a clause in mid-sentence, even though in some cases there is a marked
development of sense, e.g. 1060, or reading is made awkward by the presence
of earlier punctuation which anticipates the end of the clause, e.g. 983. A
clause which begins with enn (or the abbreviated og) has not been taken as
starting a new sentence unless written with a capital letter in the manuscript,
if the sentence can run on, e.g. 916; some long sentences have resulted, e.g. 940"
50 has not been divided into two at 945. Editorial changes not covered by these
remarks are noted in the commentary to the text, e.g. 1227, 152, 153, 1553, 1617.
Lbs 1230, 8vo, III
Lbs 1230 8vo III consists of two strips from a parchment leaf that had been
used in book binding at Hólar in the early seventeenth century. The strips
were cut horizontally across the leaf, and fragment a is from higher up than b.
The texts on the rectos are from near the end of Mírmanns saga: on the
versos, a contains the end of Mírmanns saga and the beginning of Erex saga
Artuskappa, and b contains sentences from further on in the first chapter of