Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Qupperneq 157
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Lbs 1756, 8vo
Lbs 1756 8vo consists of two parts. The second part is a gathering of eleven
bifolia and a single leaf at the end; it contains a complete work, and is written
in one hand, which is different from that of the first part. Doubtless the two
parts were originally separate though they are now bound together.
In the first part there are five sagas, one of them (Ármanns sagá) with a
little story appended to it. Mírmanns saga, on pp. 33-105, is the second of
them. All are in the same hand. The scribe has given his name at the end of
Mírmanns saga, ‘skrifud á Grund arid 1858 | af Arna Jonssyne’. Similar colo-
phons occur elsewhere, and the one at the end, on p. 240, has the specific date
of 17th March 1858.
The same name occurs elsewhere in the manuscript written by other peo-
ple. The front paste-down was once the cover for a letter; it is addressed to
‘Virðlegum Bónda | Arna Jónssyni | á Grund’. (There are also a few scribbles
on it, and there are lines of writing, and scribbles, on the back paste-down.)
Before p. 1 there is a leaf of different paper, originally blank, stuck to the
tenth leaf (which would otherwise be single, and was originally the first leaf
of the next gathering), and on this first leaf one may read, on the recto ‘Arni
Jónsson á Grund Má hafa | hjartanns þakklæti firyr (sic) lánid á bókonum |
sem hann ljedi mjer þettad seigir Arngrimur | Jóns son á Dölum’, and also
‘Arne Jons son’ and ‘Arni’; and on the verso ‘Arni Jonsson’. It occurs again
as a scribble on p. 240, below the colophon. Grund is identified in the cata-
logue (Skrá, II 345) as Grund in Mjóafjörður (Suður-Múlasýsla). There is a
Dalir there too, and it may be supposed that Ami the writer and owner of the
manuscript in 1858 and Amgrímur the borrower of it were the half-brothers
who are recorded in Manntal á íslandi 1845 as living at Grund, then aged 17
and 11.
A scribble in pencil on the leaf before p. 1 contains the name ‘Suejnbjörn’,
probably followed by ‘Svejnsson’, and at the top of the recto there is written
‘Bindid kostar 16 skild. | H. HallgVimsson’. There is a loose leaf in the front
of the manuscript bearing a list of contents for the whole manuscript, in ink,
corrected in pencil to include Ármanns saga, though not the Appendix to it.
The title of the saga in this manuscript is ‘Hjer skrjfast | Sagann | af | Mýr-
manne Jarle Geir|manns sine’. The text is divided into twelve chapters,
headed ‘I Capituli’ etc. Each begins with a large decorated initial, the first be-
ing larger than the others and eight lines deep. The first line is written large in
some chapters, most noticeably in ch. XII. The chapter divisions are the same
as in F, the version in 152.
The whole of the text is of the F type. Further, 1756 agrees with 2146' (the
text on the original leaves in 2146) in all but two of the variants of 2146' lis-
ted above, p.cuv, and in the two exceptions 1756 has an innovation of its