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ginning of AM 556 a, 4to is filled in from AM 588 m,
4to (paper, 17th century) where the saga is preserved
in full, extending from fo. lr to fo. 6v.—Variant read-
ings are taken from 1. AM 167 fol (paper, written c.
1660 by Arnór Eyjólfsson at Flókastaðir), in which
the saga begins on fo. 35v and ends on fo. 46v. 2. AM
123, 8vo (vellum, c. 1600), where the saga begins on
fo. llv and ends defective on fo. 29v, corresponding
to p. 988 hann in the present edition. 3. Where the
text is taken from AM 556 a, 4to some variants are
also given from AM 588 m, 4to (see above).
3. Sigrgarðs saga ok Valbrands. The only text
on vellum of this saga is preserved in two fragments,
II and III, in the number Perg. 8:o nr 10 (vellum,
16th century), both originating from one and the
same manuscript. The first of these fragments is only
one leaf corresponding to p. 16919 svo—p. 17314 hann
in the present edition. The contents of the second
fragment liave not previously been identified (see
Gödel’s catalogue p. 115, where the text is defined as
being a fornsaga Suðrlanda about a King Qvinatus
and his daughter Porfila); it consists of two conjoint
leaves corresponding to p. 1865 Enn—p. 1937 8 allskins
dirgripumm, but since the leaves have been used as a
book-jacket, the two outer sides, fo. lr and fo. 2v,
are very worn and only the three first lines are at all
legible. The text contained on the rest of the two
sides has therefore been taken from AM 523, 4to (see
below), fo. 68v and foo. 69v-70r, corresponding re-
spectively to p. 1868 Valbrands—p. 1883 prijde and
p. 19118 sijdann—p. 1937-8 allskins dirgripumm. With
the exception of those parts of the saga that it has
been possible to print from the above-mentioned
vellum fragments, the whole of the rest of the text
is taken from AM 523, 4to (paper, end of 17th cen-
tury) where the saga is preserved in full beginning