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columns and is very compact. At several places blank
spaces have been left for initial letters and headings.
The latter, however, have often been inserted in
17th-century hands. The MS contains 11 riddara-
sogur (not all of them complete), namely Rémundar
saga, Elis saga ok Rósamundu, Sigurðar saga turnara,
Bevers saga, Konráðs saga keisarasonar, Hektors
saga, Gibbons saga, Viktors saga ok Blávus, Sigurðar
saga fóts, Partal. and Adonias saga. There were
originally more leaves in the MS and it may have
contained more sagas, cf. below.
Most of the sagas named are also found in one of
the foliowing four paper MSS: AM 109a III 8vo, AM
118a 8vo, AM 119a 8vo and AM 588p 4to. These
originally formed one MS but Arni Magnússon had
them separated from each other, cf. pp. xl f. (The
quarto MS is of the same format as the others.) The
divided MS will be referred to henceforward as AM
588p 4to etc.
In Viktors saga ok Blávus, Riddarasögur II (Reyk-
javík, 1964), Jónas Kristjánsson has both given a
detailed description of Stockh. 7 (pp. ix-xxxvii) and
discussed the relationship between AM 588p 4to etc.
and Stockh. 7 (pp. lvi-lviii).
The two MSS have 8 sagas in common (not 9 as
incorrectly stated by Jónas Kristjánsson, p. x). Ré-
mundar saga, Sigurðar saga turnara and Hektors
saga, however, are not found in the surviving parts of
the divided MS. On the other hand, AM 588p 4to
etc. contains 3 sagas which are not in the vellum MS
(not 2 as incorrectly stated by Jónas Kristjánsson p.
xi): Ála flekks saga, Hjálmþérs saga and Bærings
saga.
A number of scholars who have studied the indivi-
dual sagas in the two MSS have all come to the same
conclusion as far as the saga they were editing was
Partalopa Saga - 3