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kloraztt] kloazt, 2223 framm] framan, 2230 þurfv\ þurfi, 2420
vitad] 2723 þria\ 4, 2729 vera staddur] inverted.
The readings of AM 64 fol. and AM 326b 4to agree
against Flat in several instances but these are mostly
obvious corrections of the Flat text, i.e. the emendations
that have been adopted in this edition at 314, 329, 525,
725, 914, 917, ll17, 1218, 1517, 1529, 1633, 1923, 2418, 2524 and
2719, and the following instances where it has not been
considered necessary to emend (Flat’s reading is given
first): 730 nv hier] inverted, 1230 tok] before þvi, 1820 þo
hann] inverted. None of these agreements puts any ob-
stacles in the way of treating AM 64 fol. and AM 326b
4to as two independent copies of Flat and it should
be noted that one of the emendations that have been
adopted in this edition, 617 sidar, is only found in AM
64 fol.
c) The relationship between the other ten paper MSS
and Flat is not quite as obvious but there are a number
of instances where all or most of them agree against
Flat and this seems to suggest that they have as their
ultimate common source a lost MS that was copied from
Flat. Some of the variants could, of course, have arisen
independently but others are more significant. A complete
list is given here of all variants where the majority of the
paper MSS agree against Flat and the remaining paper
MSS do not have Flat’s reading. The ten paper MSS fall
into five groups, referred to here as V W X Y and Z.
This grouping will be discussed in detail later. Here it is
only necessary to say that the representative MSS for the
5 groups are as follows: V = JS 222 8vo, W = ÍBR 43
8vo, X = Nks 1704 4to, Y = Lbs 355 4to and Z =
Lbs 1754 8vo.
l22-215 ok—verid] — W, l22-215 hefddi verid] vered hafde
VXYZ, 220 voxtt] + og All, 230 Iand] lande All, 317 er] +
ad All, 427 son sinri] born sin All, 433 kongur] 4- All, 531