Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.06.1983, Blaðsíða 193

Summary
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8.6. While Þormóðr’s verses thus cannot be employed as
terminus post quem for Ar, they do form a terminus post quem
for GA, whose youngest component they probably are. They
can hardly be older than from about 1300, more likely rather
younger than this. As far as the age of Aa1 is concerned (cf.
§2.3), it can be determined with a reasonable degree of cer-
tainty that the compilation of GA took place in the first half of
the 14th century, perhaps most likely 1320-30.
9.1. The treatment of the three texts in this volume is
generally as described in § 2.6 above. The chapter divisions of
the main MSS have also been kept. In the outer margin
indication is given of the MS from which the main text has been
printed and page references to the earlier edition of GA in Bisk
are also cited.
9.2. In the footnotes to the text of GA there are references
to MSS containing the same text (=) or a text which is related
as regards contents (^). References are to Sturl in SturlKál, to
GB in the forthcoming edition in Guðmundar sögur II, or to GC
or GD, when these versions contain material over and above
what survives in GB. References are made to both versions of
Hr, in EA A5 and EA B25, and to Ár in SturlGV II to the
extent to which the independent Ár survives. For parallels to
each individual annal entry reference is made to •StormAnn
(with ^ whether or not the parallel text has the identical
formulation).
9.3. Variant readings from the excerpts Ab1 and the frag-
ment Ac are recorded in the apparatus to those sections of GA
which are contained in these texts, accompanied by information
as to whether readings in other parallel texts in each individual
case support the reading of the main MS or that of the variant
MS. Unambiguous support for a reading will in most cases be
an indication that it is the original one. Apart from these
sections variant readings from parallel texts are only cited
occasionally and then mainly such readings as contain varia-
tions from GA as regards content. When readings of this kind
have been taken from Sturl, they have often been checked
against the MSS and in a few cases variant readings found in
SturlKál have been corrected. This is particularly the case with
the MS Br, to which Kálund only had limited access. All
variants noted from Ár have been taken from the MSS of the
independent Ár. A critical edition of Ár is much needed.
English version by Gillian Fellows-Jensen.