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follows, “Een gammel skreven islandsk historie bog fuld-
kommen en hand tycke hvor udi var forst saga af kong
Magnus gode, og af Harald Sigurdsen etc. mentioneres
sub num: 5 udi det sidste missive lit: C. 7rdl”. (A.M.
Priv.Brevv. 447). It is not known what became of this MS
which was presumably a transcript of sections of Flat.
In the following discussion of the relationship of these
paper MSS to Flat and to each other, the two conclusions,
printed in this edition from Lbs 355 4to and Lbs 2421
8vo, have been left out of consideration. They will be
discussed in separate sections dealing with MHR and
related versions of HÞ (cf. below pp. lxvii-xc).
b) Two of the paper MSS are clearly nothing more
than transcripts of the HÞ in Flat. These are AM 64 fol.
and AM 326b 4to. They both share with Flat the omission
of var 226, for example, and end at the point where
Flat ends (2831).
AM 64 fol. has several variants from the Flat text but
these are only minor and do not disprove that it is a
direct copy of the vellum. A selection of the variants is
given here: 230 land] lande, 311 vel] + vid, 317 er] ad, 425
ath] af, 425 kvnna] + ad seigia, 433 kongur2] +, 52iaungvmm]
aungvann, 524-25 Enn helldur] inverted, 818 verda] + herra,
1026 þessi] þessari, ll12-13 in madur] inverted, 1116 stannda]
stödu, ll19 hefer] hafi, 1416 þuiat] þad, 1522 tok] tekur, 2021
skallttv] skal, 2 126 27 þa mœler] mceltte, 2 1 29-30 nu—lanndz]
+, 2219 til] vel, 2223 framm] framan, 2227 ganga] fara,
2228 at] + þui, 2627 rauk] rann, 2726 ek] +, 2824 batt]
badztt, 2830 þeir] þa.
Á.M. states that AM 326b 4to is copied from Flat.
There are, however, some insignificant variants, e.g. 526-27
annann aungann] inverted, 623 hier] + vera, 821 .xii.] +,
825 gangi] + þer, 830 hliota] verða, 917 taka\ takit, 1025
fieri]fe, 1029 vid] missa (sic), 1029 rninn] mins, 151!l þeim] +,
1824 sunz] sin, 1926 dafnadiztt] dapradiztt, 2017 vt] uti, 2027