Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1965, Side 13
INTRODUCTION
Errek þótti jafn við þeim
Qðlings vinr enn fríði,
þessi flutti fegrsta heim
fallda Rist úr stríði.
Skikkjurímur 1:14
Erex saga (hereafter ES) is preserved in the following
manuscripts (Lbs. 1230 vellum, all the others paper):
1. Lbs. 1230III 8vo, ca. 1500(only two smallfragments).
2. AM 181 b fol., ca. 1650 (= A).
3. Holm 46 fol., 1690 (= B).
Derived from A:
4. Brit. Mus. Add. 4859, 1693-96.
4a. Lbs. 3127 4to, beginning of 19th cent. (?) (copy
of Add. 4859).
5. Kall. 246 fol., 2nd half of 18th cent.
6. Nks. 1708 4to, 2nd half of 18th cent.
Abbreviated versions:
7. Nks. 1144 fol., 2nd half of 18th cent.
8. Brit. Mus. Add. 11.158, ca. 1800.
9. Lbs. 3128 4to, 1884.
The saga has been edited by Gustaf Cederschiöld
(hereafter GC) and has also appeared in a popular Ice-
landic edition.1 GC used the designations a and b for
1 Erex saga, ed. Gustaf Cederschiöld, Samfund til udgivelse af
gammel nordisk litteratur, Vol. 3 (Copenhagen, 1880). Ævintýra-
sögur, ed. Valdimar Ásmundarson, Vol. 2 (Reykjavík, 1886); based
on the preceding. A copy of this book appears as Lbs. 2498 8vo
(Lbs. catalogue, »1. Aukabindi«, No. 604).