Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1960, Side 32

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ive, Papp. fol. 47 and Papp. 4° 6 descending from B,
Papp. 8° 10 from C. Of the late texts two, Lbs. 2315,
8° and JS. 11, 8°, derive ultimately from B, having
the distinctive central section of AM. 585c, 4°. There
are three late manuscripts deriving from, or at least
closely related to, C, Lbs. 1305, 4°, ÍBR. 46, 8° and
probably ÍB. 228, 4°, though this last is very badly
faded and much of it is illegible. lB. 185, 8° is closely
related to D. The remaining four manuscripts divide
into two groups of two. Ny kgl. sml. 1749, 4° and
Kall 614, 4° are closely akin, as are Lbs. 1509, 4°
and Lbs. 2081, 8°. The texts of these two groups
are very free rewritings of the saga, and it is difficult
to ascribe them to any early manuscript group. They
are in any case too far removed from the wording of
the earliest versions to be of importance in establish-
ing the saga text.
The present edition.
The text of A has been cbosen for the main text
of this edition, occupying most of pp. 3—98. Apart
from the tiny fragment E, A is the earliest of the
texts, and is fairly complete. Though it is marred by
erroneous and unusual spellings and by omissions of
words and phrases, such errors etc. can in most cases
be readily corrected, often by reference to the early B.
The lacuna caused by the loss of the leaf which
formerly preceded fo. 31 and by the illegibility of
most of the text of fo. 30v (9015—9717) has been
supplied from B, and a B text also replaces A for
those passages on fos. 19v and 20r which have been
overwritten at a later date (517—91, 95, 913—14, 915—16,
101 -2, 102 -14). As far as they are available, A variants
are given for those sections in which the main text
follows B. Complete variant readings are elsewhere