Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1965, Blaðsíða 57
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Favidam dóttur Ubba Jarls af Buderisborg ur höndum eins
Jötuns, og litlu sídar Platonem riddara Vigdæi borgar systurson
herra Valvens ur dreka kiapte, eirnin strax epter Juben hertuga
af Freiheime og brædur hans þriá, Perant, Jochim, og Malcher,
hertugana af Manaheimi er halldner voru i böndum i einum
kastala, drap eirn jarl er taka villdi konu hans nauduga; reið
ofan Kiæa rædismann Artus Kongs er hönum mætti á veige,
og baud burtreid ókiendum, sigradi og i einvíge Malbanaring
riddara er hafde hernumid Elenam födur brodur dottur
Evidæ; þessu næst dó Jlax Kongur, tok Erex þá ordlof af
Artus Kongi og for heim i ríke sitt og ríkti þar til dauda
dags og átti tvo sonu vid drottningu sinne, er sá eine ei nefndur
enn annar het Jlax epter födur hans.
As a synopsis of the saga, 1144 is fairly complete and
accurate. Several episodes are, however, omitted: Erex’
whole first adventure—the encounter with the robber
knights (A Ch. VII), Erex’ second stay with Guimar
(Ch. XII), and Erex’ return to Arthur’s court to be
crowned (Ch. XIV). There are also several discrepancies
in details: Erex rescues Kalviel from one giant instead
of two, and hernumid as applied to Elena is not exact,
since both A and B state clearly that she f ollowed Malban-
aring of her own free will. It is most plausible, of course,
to assume that 1144’s original, the lost notes of Árni
Magnússon, was made from A itself, the AM MS. The
forms of the names tend to confirm such an assumption,
although the evidence may not be absolutely incontrover-
tible in every case. B is clearly excluded: Evida(m)—
Ovide B, Gvimar—Gunner B, Buderisborg—Brandeya B,
etc. The conclusion of 1144 with the name of only one
son is closer to A than to B, where both are named, and
the vœnu in the title of the synopsis appears to come from
the concluding lines of A (cf. B). In one detail 1144 seems
to agree with B as opposed to A—where Juben and his
brothers are said to be held in bonds i einum kastala. In
B (Ch. IX) Erex rides quickly til kastalans to free the
brothers, whereas in A (Ch. X) the captives may still be