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on fo. 50r and ending on fo. 70r.—Variant readings
are taken from 1. AM 522, 4to (paper, 17th century)
in which the saga extends from fo. 27r to fo. 49v.
2. Rask 31 (paper, 18th century) where the saga is
found as the tenth of eighteen in all, beginning on
fo. 118v and ending on fo. 137v. 3. Where the text is
from Perg. 8:o nr 10, II and III, some variants are
also taken from AM 523, 4to (see above).
4. Sigurðar saga turnara. The text is printed
from MS Perg. fol. nr 7 (second half of the 15th cen-
tury) of the Royal Library, Stockholm; the saga
begins on fo. 26v, col. 1, has a lacuna of one leaf
after fo. 27, and ends on fo. 28r, col. 2; the lacuna,
corresponding to p. 21513 vnder—p. 22712 kaupa in
the present edition, is filled in from AM 122, 8vo (see
below), foo. 8v-13v.—Variant readings are taken
from 1. AM 122, 8vo (paper, c. 1700), which consists
of 15 leaves and contains the whole saga. 2. Where
the text is filled in from AM 122, 8vo some variants
are given from AM 585 d, 4to (paper, written 1691),
in which the saga extends from fo. 3v to fo. 8v.
5. Hrings saga ok Tryggva. Two vellum frag-
ments exist of this saga, AM 489, 4to (15th century),
fo. 27r, and AM 586, 4to (15th century), fo. 27r, 11.
1-11. The text in the present edition is taken from
AM 489, 4to and all variants of any significance
given from AM 586, 4to.—In some 16th-century MSS
there is found a set of rímur based on the saga. These,
which are called Geðraunir, have been edited by
Finnur Jónsson in Rímnasafn, II, Cph. 1913-22, pp.
170-287, see also Björn K. Þórólfsson, Rímur fyrir
1600, Cph. 1934, especially pp. 314-317; there are 12
rímur in Geðraunir and to these was later added a
thirteenth, the content of which corresponds exactly
with that part of the saga which is preserved in the
surviving fragments. In order to complete the nar-