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THE LIBRARY AT BRÆÐRATUNGA 273
Appendix: Manuscripts from Oddur Sigurðsson
In addition to the manuscripts listed in the article, Árni Magnússon re-
ceived a significant number of manuscripts and documents from Oddur
Sigurðsson, not all of which came from Helga Magnúsdóttir. Many (e.g.,
AM 59 8vo, AM 243–245 4to, AM 416 a I–III 4to and possibly AM 262
4to) appear to have been inherited from his father and his paternal grand-
father, Bishop Oddur Einarsson of Skálholt. However, some of Oddur’s
manuscripts have an obvious connection with Bishop Brynjólfur and his
scribal network, indicating a connection with Helga Magnúsdóttir. Árni
Magnússon acquired some of these manuscripts from Oddur personally,
but he also bought a number of items at an auction of Oddur’s books in
Copenhagen. In 1730, following Árni Magnússon’s death, Oddur made
a list of items for which he demanded compensation (Árni Magnússon
1920, 444–51), including *Jónsbók. Of these, seven folio volumes are spe-
cifically stated to have belonged to his mother Sigríður and likely came
from Bræðratunga ((a) a copy of Sturlunga saga, (b) a legal codex, (c) a
copy of Eyrbyggja saga and Laxdæla saga and (d) a copy of Hungurvaka and
a number of other items, all in the hand of Jón Erlendsson of Villingaholt;
(e) a copy of Stjórn in an unknown hand; (f) a book containing annals in
an unspecified hand; and (g) a copy of “Sæmundar Edda” in Brynjólfur
Sveinsson’s hand), as did letters from Jón Vestmann to Bishop Brynjólfur
Sveinsson and Helga’s husband Hákon Gíslason from 1647 and three
parchment documents relating to Bræðratunga. Unfortunately, many of
these items were plainly lost in the fire. The following items from Oddur
in Árni Magnússon’s collection are also worth mentioning:
AM 1 g fol. ff. 1r–3v
The manuscript contains three genealogies. The first (ff. 1r–3v) is in
the hand of Jón Erlendsson of Villingaholt and traces the ancestry of
Brynjólfur Sveinsson to Jón Arason and from Jón to Adam. The second
and third are in an unknown hand. The second traces the ancestry of Helga
Magnúsdóttir’s brother-in-law Vigfús Gíslason (1608–1647) to Odin (f.
4r–v), while the third traces the ancestry of Vigfús’s son Jón.30 The first
30 Vigfús had two sons named Jón: Jón the Elder (1639–1681), who held the administrative
position of sýslumaður, and Jón the Younger (1643–1690), a sýslumaður who infamously
became bishop of Hólar in 1684.