Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1983, Blaðsíða 92

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asks him to pretend to be Hugi, son of the Duke of
Normandy, so that she can receive him officially.
After this reception has taken place, she hands over
her castle to him and asks him not to be inquisitive
(preparation for the following episode). She herself
goes to Miklagarth, where she remains throughout
the tournament.
B1 has a more confused narrative: Urækja imme-
diately hands over her castle to P., urges him to call
himself Hugi, son of the Duke of Normandy, and asks
him to remain on the island until Easter. She enjoins
him not to be inquisitive, tells him about the tourna-
ment in Miklagarth and then goes ‘home’, i.e. to
Miklagarth, while P. remains on the island and
recovers his strength. Urækja reigns (in Miklagarth)
‘þeBa tólf manudi’ and often reproaches Marmoria for
her treatment of P.
A agrees with PartFra in having Urækja be perma-
nently resident on the island but make two visits to
Marmoria (in PartFra she is accompanied by Parta-
lopi on the second occasion) and by having Urækja
hear about the forthcoming tournament from Mar-
moria herself. The B-text gives the impression that
its scribe had first attempted to make a radical
abridgement (corresponding to A1-2 9:24-72) but then
abandoned the attempt and tried to fit some of the
omitted features into the narrative of subsequent
events.
These five instances of a more original text-form in
A than in B seem to be the result of B having
abridged its text and it cannot a priori be denied that
the abridgement and subsequent corruption could be
attributed to the scribe of B1, Jón Vigfússon. The
same applies to the following instance, where there
would also seem to be corruption in B1:
6. A1-2 3:7-10. Partalopi hunts a wild-boar; in B1