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did not come into use until after 1450,4 while hand I,
which writes ek and crossed z at the beginning of the
MS, changes gradually to ec and oc in the course of
Elis saga.
AM 533 contains a number of marginal notes. On f.
38v a hand which is probably to be dated to the 16th
century has written the following Latin verse: ‘dextera
scrip't'oris benedicta sit omnibu.s horis.5 disce puer
dum tempus habes euo puerili. Ne te mendice fias
etate senili6 stulltus et pravius (sic) est qvi spemit et
non tercdit hoc’.
The oldest personal name in the marginalia is prob-
ably the above-mentioned ion þeodolf son (f. 73v).
Since Þjóðólfur is a rather uncommon name and the
hand can date from the 15th century, it is tempting
to identify Jón Þjóðólfsson with a witness to a
charter from Þingeyrar in Húnavatnsþing 1497.7
The other personal names in the marginalia all date
from the 17th century. Einar Sigurds son (f. 29r) and
Andries Jonsson (ff. 46r, 68v, 81v, 88r) cannot be
identified. The remaining names can be traced to two
families, both from the east of Iceland.
Halldor Eiryksson (f. 28v) = Halldor Ey (f. 58r) and
Hallni Halldörs dotter (f. 90v) are undoubtedly to be
4 Loc.cit.
5 Cf. Stefán Karlsson, ‘Skrivarverser, Island’, KLNM 15 (1970),
cols. 692-93.
6 Cf. Hans Walther, Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des
Mittelalters in alphabetischer Anordnung, Teil 1: A-E (Göttingen,
1963), nos. 5872-73.
7 Dipl. Isl. VII, no. 363. In Dipl. Isl. VI no. 408 (Móberg in
Langadalur, Hún.) there is reference to a Þjóðólfur Oddsson who
might have been the father of J.Þ. That the identification is
extremely uncertain, however, is shown by the fact that a Sigurður
Þjóðólfsson occurs in 1499 and 1500 (Dipl. Isl. VII nos. 449 and
523) in quite a different part of the country (Homafjörður, A.
Skapt.).