Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1968, Blaðsíða 196

CXCIV
capital letter to begin the following sentence, thus:
17 J, 29 Þegar, 44 J, 76 A, 91 Seth, 95 Adam, 113
Sem, 116 Moises, 119 Nockrer, 123 Enn, 135 Kong-
urenn, 138 Nu, 147 Kallade, 200 Þad, 225 Enn,
237 Nu, 240 Optnefnt. The capitals in A and D have
been retained in this edition.
The punctuation marks found in the MSS have
always been reproduced as full-stops. Where the
context requires, some punctuation marks have been
removed and a number have been added, particularly
in C1. No alterations have been made in A or D.
Among the texts edited in this book only A and
D are preserved on vellum. A has been published in
a facsimile edition (see p. xxxvi); D is rendered in
facsimile at the end of this book.
APPENDIX
A copy of Leg. with the title: “Um Adam og krosstried
Krists” is found in Lbs 417.8vo (pp. 113-28), a volume from
Jón Árnason’s collection, chiefly containing popular tales.
The contents are not enumerated in Skrá (II p. 87), and
the fact that this text is mentioned in Þjóðsögur og Ævin-
týri VI p. 56 was not known to the editor until it was too
late for the text to be treated in its proper place (p. cxxiff.).
From the concluding words it appears that a man named
Jón Þorleifsson wrote the text for a certain Guðmundur
Andrésson: “Forlattu kunningi þettad klór. eg Jón Þórleifs
son held þú getir ekk(i) lesid” and “Gudmundur Andriesson
á blódinn med riettu”. The copy would seem to be from the
middle of the 19th century; the letter ð is sometimes used
but there is not consistent distinction between d and ð; the
vowel ö is normally written in this way, as in modern Ice-
landic. A peculiarity is that the word drottning, which occurs
three times, is twice written drotting, once drottnig.
The text in 417 has the same title as F3 and an examination
'reveals that it belongs to the group F3-4; hence it is here
referred to as F5.