Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1965, Síða 26

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could have been quite what B has. A parallel is the passage
riddaralidi—þusunder (71:7-11), where B clearly has a
simplified text.
In summarizing the “errors” in A, I think one may say
that A has relatively few—in comparison with B—which
are obviously mere carelessness. But as concerns corrupt
passages, A’s text is not significantly superior to B.
Holm 46 = B.
Holm 46 is a large codex containing ívents saga, Erex
saga, Bevers saga, Fertrams saga, Konráðs saga, Partalopa
saga, Viktors saga, and Elis saga. On an otherwise blank
leaf in the front of the codex appears a table of contents
where ES appears as “2. s. af Eyrike kappa Artus köngs”.
ES is on leaves 41-80, but the pagination in the MS is
individual for each saga (pp. 1-77 for ES). There is an
unnumbered title page (41r; 41v is blank). The MS was
written by Jón Vigfússon (cf. íslenzkar Æviskrár, III:
301) whose name (sometimes abbreviated) or initials
(plus “Islender”) appears at the end of each saga. On
the last page of ES he writes: “Endir Erix SQgu/Jon Vig-
fuss”—there follows a complicated flourish and then “riá”
(for manu propria?). ES itself is not dated, but various
dates in 1690 appear elsewhere. Below the title of the
Elis saga, for example, appears “Stockholm” and the
date July 23, 1690. The MS is written in columns (ca.
7-7.5 cm. wide) across half the page; the other half is
left blank, presumably for a Swedish translation. Each
chapter, except the first, is provided with a heading.
The omission of the first may be due to oversight, since
there is a space of approximately six lines left between
I. Capitule and the beginning of the text. No space is
otherwise left between chapter number, heading, and text.
The first word or two of each heading is written with
large letters which differ often from those used in the