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Notes:
4 2-3 letters: enn like B, or a verb?
513-14 letters; may have been for þadan ur borginni like B, plus Nv. Afragment of the last
letter before the continuation is visible and looks more like v than i or e.
6 Several letters; may have been ridur j, hardly j(arl) ridur j.
7 9-10 letters; may have been enn Ju(stinus) j ódrum nóc-.
8 8-9 letters; may have been ok spurdi hui s-.
9 9-10 letters; may have been Jv seger Rogerus. þat.
10 The tops of letters in much of the next line are visible, but have not been deciphered.
a verso
k[on]gs" . . . þ[uia]t h[un] w[ar] radin j at f[yrer]lata stunndliga gledi þessa
heims. enn fystizt til eilifra fagnada. Sidan woru þav j þessv klaustri. ok bidu
þar med dyrligu lifi [a]nndl[a]tz sins. Ok lykur hier þessi sógu. Utan ennda.
amen.
Note:
11 Several letters: dottur.
Of the six texts that provide e ndings for the saga, and can be compared
with the fragments in 1230, three are totally unlike 1230, namely D, E and F
(one partly similar clause in the latter will be mentioned below). Two others
are markedly different from 1230, namely A4/A5 and C; these two texts,
which are quite distinct from each other, are quite different from 1230 in the
first fragment though with some points of agreement, almost completely dif-
ferent in the second, and completely different in the third.
By contrast with these five, there is a great likeness between 1230 and B.
However, they also differ considerably from each other; B has a word, phrase
or clause that is not in 1230 in some 12-13 instances, 1230 has a word, phrase
or clause that is not in B in some 7-8 instances, and they have different word-
ing also in over 20 instances. The differences may be briefly illustrated (line
references are to chapter 20 of the B-text):
B] 1230
vandliga] +
drottning] + litlu sidar
Já seiger Iringr] Hiringur jarl suarar.
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166
153
In most instances (as in the three quoted) it is impossible to say which manu-
script might have the better reading, i.e. might better represent an older word-
ing of the B-text.
593 may be an older manuscript than 1230, but if it is not, there are none-