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omission of some words whereby ‘med huerso mikilli virdingo’ became
‘huorsu at’ seems to have led to other changes further on in the sentence,
where ‘er einga [= einka] barn var þuilikra manna’ appears as ‘þar sem at
einginn baurn voru þuilikrar virdi'ngar’. A particularly serious omission has
occurred where one complete line of S6 (f. 62v21) has been missed,
hafdi-jarl 231'2. The mistake was noticed when ‘fyrir henni’ was reached in
the continuation, and recovery was made by altering this to ‘fyrir hann’,
adding ‘at hann mundi sva gipra ok’ and then returning to the words that had
been skipped (which, however, were then treated rather freely). The same
thing has also happened in chapter 3, at 318'20 (S6 f. 63v6). But in general the
omissions are small, and relatively few, and most of them seem accidental.
Where a small omission is suspected from a failure of sense or grammar in
that part of the saga in S47 which is printed as text D, a word or words have
been supplied by conjecture within angular brackets, e.g. at 1 110, 144, 1568,
1569, 1717, 187, 1834, 1836, 1962, 19115, 29" (twenty-five instances altogether).
Additions are more numerous. Many of them are single words (particles or
other simple amplifications), e.g. þar (after matti l9), ok (adverb, after hann2
l13), nu (after þagdi 24; six instances in ch. 1-2), menn (after þeir 228), vera
(after hofdingia 242). ‘Sem’ and ‘ef’ commonly appear as ‘sem at’ and ‘ef at’,
e.g. 214, l20, and in the printed text D, at 3019, there is even an instance of ‘sem
at’ where no verb follows (cf. Andersen 1983, lix). The lines in S47 are very
short, and where the added particle occurs at a line-end (which it often does),
a desire to make the line-ends more even may have been a contributory factor.
Titles are added to names, and names to titles, and both to pronouns:
S6] S47
2.2 sinni] + Hermann jarl ok Birgidá (sic) drottningh (referring lo þau)
2.21 sialf] + jarlinn ok drottning
3.9 Brigido] + drottningu
Other simple additions and expansions, and some substitutions, are illustrated
in the following fairly complete list for pp. 1 -7 in S47 (= A 1 '-226):
1.3-4 spakazsti] ágiætaste ok prydiligasti
1.14 Vngara] Ringara
1.15 goliggh] dægilig
2.5 þat] hanns þaugn
2.5 saga] + sagdi hfín
2.8 farædinn vm] fátaladur
2.8 Hon] Drottn'inginn
2.8 dreymdi] hefde dreymt
2.9 vndarliga] undarligur og