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gömlum skræðum, á Höfða í Dýrafirði. 1879-1887.
Sighvatur Grímsson Borgfirðingur”. The next 11
pages contain a list of contents. The MS came to
Landsbókasafn after Sighvatur Borgfirðingur’s death
in 1930 (Skrá III p. 294).
Leg. occupies pp. 244-54. The title is: “Saga af
Krosstré Krists”. Beneath the title Sighvatur Borg-
firðingur has noted: “Eftir handriti því sem getið er
um á bls. 95 neðst”; and on p. 95 stands: “Allt sem
hér er skrifað frá 59 Bls. er skrifað eptir Bókar-
skræðu í 8t0 (sic) mjög fúinni, með hendi Árna
Böðvarssonar á Ökrum”. This MS is not among
Árni Böðvarsson’s MSS in Landsbókasafn (cf. Skrá
III p. 477).
Lbs 841.8vo (B8) = the B text in C, cf. p. lxxxi.
The MS is described on p. lxviíí.
The relationship between the B texts
B1 and B2 * * 5 * both date from the 17th century and
they are closely related but neither text can be a
transcript of the other7. B2 lacks exactly those
7. In The Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose, A Handlist,
Medieval Studies XXV, Toronto 1963, p. 306, Ole Widding
and Hans Bekker-Nielsen propose a distribution of the oldest
Leg. texts between five redaetions: 1. AM 544.4to ( = A), 2. AM
667.4to V ( = D), 3. AM 65a.8vo (=B7), 4. Papp. 8 nr. 4 (=B2),
5. Kall 614.4to (^P1). The present examination has shown that
this arrangement needs to be correeted on some points. The
authors call redaction 4. an “Extract of a text similar to 3.
The text 113r-115r is comparable to 3. 61r-63r”. It has, however,
been shown that B2 is not an extract but simply a defective
text from which some leaves have been lost and that the surviving
leaves (115r-117v) from beginning to end correspond very closely
to B1. O. Widding and H. Bekker-Nielsen conclude their treat-
ment of the MSS by remarking that Leg. is found in a number
of late paper MSS, quoting as examples Ny kgl. sml. 1140 fol.,
AM 281.4to and AM 597b.4to. It had, however, already been
noted in Katalog KB p. 119 that 1140 was merely a transcript