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6. S17
S17 is thought to be a copy of a lost part of the medieval S7/580 (see
above, p.cxxxm). In that manuscript names are heavily abbreviated. In Mír-
manns saga in S17 names are always written out, and the name of the hero is
almost always spelled with ‘t’: nominative, accusative and dative normally
‘Mirmant’, genitive always ‘Mirmants’. The exceptions are as follows. The
varying circumstances in which they occur may be of some interest.
‘Mirman’ occurs five times for the nominative, and once each for the ac-
cusative and dative.
At the first occurrence for the nominative (f. 1 lOr), the ‘n’ just crosses the
bounding line of the column, and a ‘t’ if written would have been outside it;
this bounding line in the middle of the page is generally well observed, but on
the other hand it may be noted that in ‘Vilhialm’ (f. 119r) the ‘m’ is in the gut-
ter. All the other instances occur fairly close together, on ff. 123v-126r (but
interspersed with spellings with ‘t’); attention is focussed on the name in the
first of these occurrences (C 780).
‘Mirmanne’ occurs once for the dative, f. 97v. It is divided over a line-end,
‘Mirmanlne’.
7. 4859
Most of the text in 4859 is derived from 181 g, but the ending is from an
unknown source and provides text E.
In the part derived from 181 g, the accusative is nowhere written out, but
the nominative and the dative (endingless, three occurrences) are consistently
written with ‘t’ or abbreviated, even in the places where 181 g has the name
written out without ‘t’. The genitive is always abbreviated in the text; it is
written ‘Myrmans’ in the title, like the ‘Myrmanz’ in 181 g, but the form used
by the scribe in the heading on each opening is always with ‘t’, ‘Myrmantz’ or
‘Myrmants’.
The forms written out in the ending, text E, are all with ‘t’: nominative
‘Myrmant’, accusative ‘Mirmant’ once, genitive ‘Myrmantz’ twice. This
might be expected, in view of the treatment of the name in the preceding part
of the saga, and cannot safely be regarded as indicating what forms the exem-
plar had.
8. 152
The name is almost always abbreviated in 152, text F. The nominative
‘Mijrmant’ occurs four times; the dative ‘Mijrmant’ occurs once, in the title;
and the genitive ‘Mijrmants’ occurs once, in the colophon.