Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.06.1983, Page 188

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Inngangur
assembled his various sources, Ab1 probably next after Sturl.
By comparison with charters it is concluded that the MS was
probably written in the last quarter of the 14th century by a
scribe who lived in or came from Skagafjörður in the north of
Iceland.
5.3. As far as the vocabulary of Ab1 is concerned, it is
worthy of note that two examples are found of the old
conjunction ‘unz’, which is characteristic for the PG-text of Aa1
but which is not found in the PG-text of Sturl and GB.
5.4. 122 b was to be found in the north-west of Iceland in
the 17th century and in the first half of that century it was
almost complete. At some time after that, it was split up and
Arni Magnússon was only able to get hold of 30 leaves and
parts of leaves, most of which had in the meantime been used
for other purposes such as book-bindings and pattems for
dressmaking.
5.5. While 122 b was still in a good state of preservation, its
texts, with the exception of JG and Ab1, were transcribed by
Björn Jónsson of Skarðsá. These sections of 122 b were,
however, included in Guðmundar saga in AM 204 fol., in which
the priest Þorsteinn Bjömsson of Utskálar in the south-west of
Iceland assembled all the accounts of Bishop Guðmundr from
122 b.
5.6. The text of Ab1 can be compared with that of Aa1, GB
(the main MS Ba) and GC (the main MS Ca), although the text
of the last-mentioned version has been stylistically revised. All
four texts contain peculiar errors so that none of them can be
the archetype for the others, nor is there any indication that
any of the MSS can be a sister MS to the archetype for the
other three. Examples of shared readings in Aa1 and Ba as
against Ab1 and Ca and of shared readings in Aa1 and Ca as
against Ab1 and Ba are few and insignificant and do not
provide a sufficient basis for a classification of the MSS. On
the other hand, there are many and more significant shared
readings in Aa1 and Ab1 as against Ba and Ca. The latter group
certainly shares corruptions and the same is probably the case
with the two first-mentioned MSS, so that stemma (1) of the
three theoretically possible stemmas (§ 5.6.4, p. cxx) is the
one that is most likely to be correct. Although Ab1 is thus most
closely related to Aa1, it cannot be determined whether the
source of Ab1 was a MS of GA, since Ab1 does not contain any
of the text sections which are peculiar to the GA redaction. Ab1
can have been copied from a special PG-text and it is
presumably less corrupt than all the other texts that contain