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discussed in § 3.2). A copy taken directly from JS is extant in AM 457
4to (§ 3.1.5). - TCD 991 has been made up from two originally inde-
pendent manuscripts, the first a nineteenth-century transcript from
Orkneyinga saga and the second an eighteenth-century text of Egils
saga that is closely related to H, but unlike the latter continues with M-
text all the way to the end (§ 3.1.6). - The Hrappsey printed edition of
1782 follows *M' as far as Egill’s last lausavísa; thereafter it follows
the C-redaction, from which Sonatorrek is also taken, while Hq/uö-
lausn is from the redaction of Björn of Skarðsá (§ 3.1.7). - A stemma
is provided showing the most probable relationship between the mem-
bers of Group 1; no one of these seven texts seems to be directly de-
pendent on any of the others (§ 3.1.8).
§ 3.2. Group 2: Conflated texts. The following five manuscripts con-
tain conflated texts of the saga: Lbs. 930 4to, 1408 4to, 2963 4to, and
1421 8vo, and Copenhagen, Royal Library MS Thott 984 I fol. The
second, third, and fourth of these constitute a special sub-group, desig-
nated Eyf3 because all three of its members come from the Eyjafjörður
district in the North of Iceland. With the exception of 984 all manu-
scripts belonging to Group 2 include HQfuðlausn, 930 in the text of the
C-redaction and Eyf3 in that of Björn of Skarðsá.
Lbs. 930 4to was written at the turn of the eighteenth century. Its text
of Egils saga, which is incomplete at both the beginning and the end,
follows the C-redaction until a point early on in the passage corre-
sponding to the second lost leaf in M, after which it follows the A-
redaction though with occasional reference to C. The importance of
this manuscript consists in its having preserved text covering most of
the second large lacuna in M; it is therefore included in the variant ap-
paratus at this point (§ 3.2.1). - The sub-group Eyf3 exhibits a confla-
tion of the A-class and the B-class, chiefly M-text descended from
*M'. Of greatest interest are those passages that correspond closely (at
least in part) to the oldest surviving fragment of the saga, fragm. d.
Thus, Eyf3 supplements the episode about the shepherd Iri, which is
incomplete in U. All three manuscripts of the Eyf3 sub-group seem to
derive independently from a common source. The oldest, Lbs. 1421
8vo, is signed and dated by the genealogist and bibliophile Guðmundur
Gíslason at Melgerði on 7 May 1777. Lbs. 1408 4to is likewise signed
and dated by Stefán Ólafsson at Öngulstaðir on 30 March 1782; this
scribe is also known to have copied rímur. The youngest manuscript,
Lbs. 2963 4to, is signed by Halldór Jónsson at Öxnafell; it is undated,
but the catalogue of the manuscripts in Lbs. states that it was written