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2. 593a
In the text (there are no headings):
Nominative
Mirmant (abbreviated with superior ‘n’), twice, ff. 18r2, 20v3 (= B
1620, 1933).
Oblique cases
Always suspended.
The two places are in contexts where the identity of the character is in
question, and that may be why the name is written out here.
3. Copies ofS6
It is necessary to consider whether the seventeenth-century copies of S6
can be used to supplement the information from S6.
3.1. 179
179 is in general a good copy of the surviving part of S6, and it reproduces
the name almost exactly in the four places where it is written out in the text in
S6. The insignificant exception is the fourth, where it has doubled the ‘n’
(‘Mirmannt’). It does not reproduce the headings of S6, but it has a title for
the saga and this contains the name ‘Mirmanus’, which is similar to S6.
It is little to go on, but it may indicate that in the continuation where there
is now a lacuna in S6, 179 will have reproduced without significant alteration
such forms as were written out there.
Unfortunately in this respect, 179 expands many of the instances of the
suspended form of the name in the first part of the saga, so that it is imposs-
ible to say which forms in the continuation are copied from the exemplar and
which are due to expansion by the copyist. In spite of this disappointment,
179 is still useful; its forms in the continuation are fairly consistent, they are
in accordance with the forms of the first part, and they fdl the gaps in the
oblique cases. The forms in 179 as a whole are:
Nominative:
(1) Mirman/i, frequent.
(2) Mirmanut, once only, the one copied from S6.
Accusative:
Mirmann, quite frequent. Variations: Mirman, at line-end, and Mir-
mnn/Mirmn/ín (abbreviated with superior ‘n’).
Genitive:
Mirmanns, four times, Mirmnns/Mirmn/nzs once.
Dative:
(1) Mirmann, five times, on ff. 128v, 129r, 137r (twice), 145v