Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1965, Blaðsíða 48

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what stands below it looks very much like r, although
it might perhaps be t. Except for rus, rogerus is also
very hard to read; r1 may be r. In hafde the de (perhaps di)
is actually written above the/.
b recto, a crease about two-thirds over from the left
has practically obliterated several letters in lines 1, 2,
and 5. Line 1, ok is badly smudged. katrin drotning is
again very difficult to read. After sid is the crease, and
from there on the tops of the letters are clipped. Line 2,
the abbreviation mark over the w is clipped. In audrum
the um abbreviation now looks merely like three dots.
flocki perhaps ends in e, and there follows one letter, or
two, which I am unable to read. Line 3, in þessa the þ is
very unclear; it might also be read þria with ri abbreviated.
hans may again be abbreviated like hann, but it is followed
very closely by a letter which is quite unclear, perhaps
the abbreviation for ok. Line 4, in sæter the æ is partially
clipped and very unclear. After sikiley there follow two
letters which are hard to read but look more like jv than
ja (JB). Line 5, in herra all but h and a are rather unclear.
a verso, line 1, most of this line is clipped off, including
the tops of the letters read and the assumed abbreviations.
Line 3, in lifi the /2 is written above they and looks like an
abbreviation.
JB points out (p. 198) that the fragments preserve a
text which differs considerably from those used by Köl-
bing. It is interesting that the greatest similarity is, just
as in the case of the ES, with a MS (AM 593a 4to) which
the particular editor did not consider to be the main one.
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