Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.06.1983, Qupperneq 185

Summary
CLXXIX
present edition. Apart from a few emendations which are
indicated by means of an asterisk or triangular brackets
enclosing inserted words or letters, the text in Aa1 is repro-
duced unchanged in the present edition. Abbreviation symbols
have been expanded without italicising but expansions of more
radical abbreviations - in part dependent on parallel texts - are
generally enclosed within round brackets. The use of capital
and small letters has been normalised and capitals are only
used in proper names and at the beginning of sentences.
3.1. AM 394 4to (Aa2) consists of 37 leaves.
3.2. Ami Magnússon believed that Aa2 was a transcript of
Aa1 with insertions from another text. Subsequent research has
confirmed his view and the three lacunae in the text of Aa1
have been filled from Aa2 in both Bisk and the present edition.
A comparison between the two texts reveals that except for the
modemisation of the orthography and some grammatical forms
Aa2 is a comparatively faithful rendering of Aa1. At three
places in 394 excerpts from GD are inserted in GA, but there is
otherwise no conflation of the two texts.
3.3. 394 is incomplete. Half of one of the leaves has been
cut away and a total of at least 10 leaves are missing from two
different places between the surviving leaves. In addition, more
of the conclusion of GA is missing from 394 than from Aa1 -
approximately two leaves, quite apart from other leaves which
tnay have contained GD-text.
3.4. 394 contains a number of marginalia in the hand of the
scribe. These include indications of contents, notes on the
scribe’s work with datings (without the year), as well as other
notes of varying nature, including verses and proverbs. The
most important of these marginalia is an account including a
number of place-names from the northern part of Strandasýsla
and the date 1592.
3.5. With the exception of a few lines, all of 394 is written in
one hand. There are a few archaic features in the scribe’s
orthography which betray the influence of his source but
otherwise it has been modemised.
3.6. The script is very much abbreviated and common words
are often represented only by the first letter followed by the
final letter above the line.
3.7. As far as the morphology is concemed, there has been
some slight modemisation and in a very few cases there has
been a change of vocabulary. These changes are comparatively
small, considering the fact that Aa2 is approximately 250 years