Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1983, Blaðsíða 60

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have occupied about 20 lines = 2/5 of p. 172. The
scanty and in part incorrect (cf. below) line references
in the quotations from Partal. do no permit the calcu-
lation of where on p. 166 the saga began (if it did not
in fact begin on p. 165) but an approximate result can
be obtained by calculating backwards from the end.
One page in 0 must have corresponded to about 130
printed lines in Islendzk œventýri (see above note 16).
If we reckon with an average of 60 characters per
line in ÍÆv as against 50 in the present edition, then
130 lines in IÆv correspond to 156 lines in the latter;
this means that the change-over from p. 171 to p. 172
in 0 must correspond to a point in B1 which is 2/5
X 156 lines = 62 lines from the end of Partal., i.e.
10:77.
If we continue to count backwards from this point,
still assuming that 156 lines in the present edition= 1
page in O, we arrive at the following approximate
references in B1 for page-changes in 0:
0 B1
170/71 9:22
169/70 7:39
168/69 5:78
167/68 4:15
166/67 2:81
There remain 154 printed lines of Partal., repre-
senting the part of the saga which must have stood
before the change-over from p. 166 to p. 167. This
means that Partal. must have begun at the top of p.
166. This result does not rule out the possibility of
Partal.’s having begun at the foot of p. 165 but it does
show that if the saga began on p. 166, then it must
have been near the top of the page.
The assumption that Partal. occupied approximately