Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1965, Qupperneq 42

XL
The fragments are strips, cut horizontally across the
original page, which were used in book binding (at Hólar
in first decade of 17th cent.)- The parchment is rather
dark now, and the text in a number of places is extremely
difficult—or impossible—to read due to wrinkles and to
the holes from the sewing. The one contains three lines
of text from ES (the first two lines are the end of the
Mírmann), and the other six lines. The second is, however,
clipped off on one side, for ES the right side, so that
ca. 1.5 cm. of text are missing at the end of each line.
Jakob Benediktsson (JB) has printed the text and dis-
cussed the fragments briefly in Skímir, CXXV (1951), pp.
196-98. The text is printed again here and comment
provided. Both ultraviolet and infrared photographs have
been used as aids in reading the original.
Italics indicate abbreviation. Square brackets indicate
letters which are now illegible, either because they are
badly smudged or are clipped off, but presumably are or
were in the MS. In general I have not tried to fill in
missing words, as JB does, since the version in 1230
differs considerably from both A and B.
a verso (cf. A 3:3 ff.; B 3:10 ff.):
'Saga þt’í.vi er af Riddara einum er errek het son ílags
kongs. errek 'war/2 ein« af.xíj.koppum artu.s kongs enns
rika ok enns agæta. Ok fra env kr/nglot/a bordi /3 hans.
enn þar hefer tíl frasagnar sögu þessa. At artw.v kongur
war j eínum kastala ../.4 [Karjdigan het \>at war ...
b verso (cf. A 4:14 ff.; B 4:30 ff.):
1...hey[ra] uillde eþ/ur] sia .../2... se[m] w[id] komzt.
Lyt/i þa/ ok eíngi fyrer audrum þuiat flester woru um
slika hlu/i ... /3 er aller woru sem gladaster þaa l[æ]tur
artus kongur kuedia sier hliods. Ok tok suo .. ./4 er ydwr