• Helga þáttur Þórissonar
• Norna-Gests þáttur

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                     <incipit>Þad v<ex>ar</ex> a eini nott at ol<ex>afr</ex> k<ex>onung</ex>r t<ex>ryggva</ex> s<ex>on</ex>
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                     <incipit>Þor<ex>ir</ex> h<ex>e</ex>t m<ex>adr</ex> e<ex>r</ex> bio J nor<ex>eg</ex>e a bę þ<ex>ei</ex>m
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                     <explicit>at hyrfi o<ex>g</ex> eiru<ex>m</ex> hornin o<ex>g</ex> hef<ex>ur</ex> engi<ex>n</ex> m<ex>adr</ex>
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                     <title>Ólafur konungur braut goð þrænda</title>
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                     <title>Frá Sigurði byskupi</title>
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                     <title>Sýn Brestis</title>
                     <author><name type="person" role="translator" key="GunLei001">Gunnlaugur Leifsson</name></author>
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                           decorated initials at the beginning of the first two lines of each chapter. It is the work from a
                           practised and doubtless professional scribe, who can be counted among the very best of Icelandic penmen
                           in <date from="1300" to="1399">the fourteenth century</date>. The same writer was
                           responsible for <ref type="ms">Stock. perg. 4to nr. 19</ref>, and at least a part of <ref type="ms">AM
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                                 runs down to the bottom of the margin. The bar is metamorphosing down the page from a dotted line
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                              <item n="5">Fol. <locus>46rb</locus> contains a major initial, a Þ with branches
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                              <item n="6">Fol. <locus>51va</locus>: The opening of <title type="uniform">Halldórs þáttr
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                           knights fighting a dragon who is eating one of them.</p>
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                     <p> There are a few proper marginalia in the codex, and some of them are illegible; some can only be read in
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                           <item>Fol. <locus>26r</locus>
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                                    t<ex>il</ex> sett <gap extent="2" reason="illegible"/>bref</q>
                                 (<date notBefore="1500" notAfter="1599">sixteenth century</date>).</item>
                           <item>Fol. <locus>35v</locus> below the text: <q xml:lang="is">Ek einar</q> (<date notBefore="1400" notAfter="1499">fifteenth century</date>).</item>
                           <item>Fol. <locus>36r</locus> below the text: <q xml:lang="is">Austr ædd</q> (<date notBefore="1490" notAfter="1510">c. 1500</date>).</item>
                           <item>Fol. <locus>38r</locus> below the text: <q xml:lang="la">ave maria</q> (<date notBefore="1490" notAfter="1510">c. 1500</date>).</item>
                           <item>Fol. <locus>46r</locus> below the text: <q xml:lang="is">olaf<ex>ur</ex>
                                 <gap extent="4" reason="illegible"/>
                                 <ex>ok</ex>
                                 <gap extent="6" reason="illegible"/>
                              </q> (<date notBefore="1400" notAfter="1499">fifteenth century</date>).</item>
                           <item>The originally blank column 32rb has some nib-trials, including the alphabet, and there is more
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                              fols 32v and 33r.</item>
                           <item>At the top of fol. 32v a hand from <date notBefore="1390" notAfter="1410">c.
                                 1400</date> or <date notBefore="1400" notAfter="1449">the first half of the
                                 fifteenth century</date> wrote: <q xml:lang="is">þ<ex>ei</ex>m godv<ex>m</ex> m<ex>onnv</ex>m sem
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                                    p<ex>re</ex>str þ<ex>or</ex>keli þ<ex>or</ex>mrmodzsyní kvedív g<ex>v</ex>ds <ex>ok</ex> sína
                                    kv<ex>n</ex>nígt gerandi</q>.</item>
                           <item>At the top of fol. 32v, below the note just mentioned, another hand has written: <q xml:lang="is">Þ<ex>ei</ex>m e<ex>r</ex> eckí þat t<ex>il</ex> mozt e<ex>r</ex> þan<ex>n</ex>en lifa
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                                    f<ex>ra</ex> s<ex>er</ex> skílía Hʀaf<ex>n</ex> aur<ex>n</ex> hane mr þerna hauk<ex>ur</ex>
                                 stelkur spoe ualur <ex>ok</ex> kraka. langleítt haufut q<ex>ua</ex>d gyllta sá kautt <supplied reason="damage">j</supplied> myr<supplied reason="omitted">kri</supplied>
                              </q>. The stanza is from <title type="uniform">Skáld-Helga rímur</title>, but the list of bird names
                              and the adage are not known from elsewhere.</item>
                           <item>Parts of these entries are repeated in younger, unpractised hands in other spaces on fols. 32v and
                              33r, as if it had been set them as a copybook model.</item>
                           <item>Fol. <locus>32v</locus>
                              <q xml:lang="is">þoruardur skrifar illa</q> (<date notBefore="1490" notAfter="1510">c. 1500</date>).</item>
                           <item>A little further down the page: <q xml:lang="is">helge h.</q>
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                           <item>Fol. <locus>33r</locus>
                              <q xml:lang="is">halur er erlaus þiofs haus</q> (<date notBefore="1500" notAfter="1599">sixteenth century</date>), now very faint and perhaps partly scraped off.
                              Elsewhere on the page <q xml:lang="is">halur</q> is written on its own.</item>
                           <item>Fol. <locus>33v</locus> in a rather clumsily script with matching spelling, most probably from
                                 <date notBefore="1500" notAfter="1599">the sixteenth century</date>: <q xml:lang="is">vertv at bok þine bal fvsa so<ex>n</ex> vel þa skaltu fara t<ex>il</ex>
                                 stehiaríns.</q>
                           </item>
                           <item>Fol. <locus>33v</locus> Another entry, doubtless made at or about the same time, and slightly
                              more literate than the first, reads: <q xml:lang="is">þ<ex>ei</ex>m godv<ex>m</ex> m<ex>onnu</ex>m
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                                    flei<ex>n</ex>ging</q>.</item>
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                           It reads <q>Þetta fragment trur eg hafa heyrt Skalholltz kirkiu til. iafnvel þott það eigi stande i
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                           Eitt qar(?) her ur feck eg ur öd-rum stad en<ex>n</ex> resten.
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                        <p>In his manuscript catalogue, <ref type="ms">AM 394 fol.</ref>, <name type="person" key="JonSig004">Jón
                              Sigurðsson</name> says that AM 62 fol. was bound in a pasteboard binding. This was probably the work
                           of <name type="person" key="MatBlo001">Mattias Larsen Bloch</name> done some time in the years <date notBefore="1771" notAfter="1773">1771-73</date>. </p>
                        <p>The manuscript was then re-bound three times, first, in the <date notBefore="1880" notAfter="1889">1880s</date> and later, in <date when="1934">1934</date> by <name type="person" key="CarLun001">Carl Lund</name>. During conservation from <date from="1981-03-09" to="1984-07-10">9 March 1981 to 10 July 1984</date>, the manuscript was rebound by
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                     <p>According to Ólafur Halldórsson (<bibl>
                           <ref type="secondary-1" target="EIMF20">The Saga of King Olaf Tryggvason</ref>
                           <!--<biblScope type="pages">18</biblScope>-->
                        </bibl>), a note written by bishop <name type="person" role="other" key="OddEin001">Oddur Einarsson</name>
                        in <date when="1612">1612</date>, now in <ref type="ms">AM 416 a 4to</ref>, fol. 6v,
                        should concern AM 62 fol. If this is true, Oddur borrowed the manuscript from <name type="person" role="owner" key="MagHja002">Magnús Hjaltason</name>, and then he in turn lent it to <name type="person" role="other" key="GriOrm001">Grímur Ormsson</name>. When Oddur borrowed the manuscript
                        from Magnús, it was in poor shape, but was ruined when it was returned to Oddur: <q xml:lang="is">Magnus
                              Hialltaso<ex>n</ex> hefur fyr<ex>er</ex> lỏngu ljed mi<ex>er</ex> Olafs sỏgur lasnar Þær liede eg
                           Grijme Ormßyne hier heima vm<ex>m</ex> veturen<ex>n</ex> til jdkunar þa h<ex>an</ex>n var hia mjer
                              <ex>og</ex> fordiarfade h<ex>an</ex>n þær suo ad eg h<ex>e</ex>f ecke getad þ<ex>ei</ex>m
                              apt<ex>ur</ex> skilad þuij þær voru lasn<ex>ar</ex> dur. <ex>og</ex> fundust kueren eptt<ex>er</ex>
                              h<ex>onu</ex>m aptur <ex>og</ex> fram<ex>m</ex> en<ex>n</ex> þad s<ex>e</ex>m ept<ex>er</ex> er af
                              þ<ex>ei</ex>m er hier til synes h<ex>e</ex>f eg tid þ<ex>e</ex>tta fyr<ex>er</ex> Magnuse
                              <ex>og</ex> h<ex>e</ex>fur h<ex>an</ex>n lofad þ<ex>ad</ex> skyllde kuitt þo h<ex>an</ex>n
                              f<ex>ei</ex>nge þær alldrej apttur þuj þær være lijtels verdar. þo eru þær obitalad<ex>ar</ex> af
                              mi<ex>er</ex> til </q>.</p>
                     <p> Two names are written on fol. 33v: They are those of <name type="person" role="signatory" key="PalVig001">Páll Fúsason (Vigfússon)</name> (<q xml:lang="is">bal fvsa so<ex>n</ex>
                        </q>) and <name type="person" role="signatory" key="JonNar001">Jón Narfason</name> (<q xml:lang="is">ion narfa
                              so<ex>n</ex>
                        </q>), who were doubtless boys when they wrote the sentences. They can be identified as Páll Vigfússon,
                        later lögmaður and living at <name type="place" key="Hlíða01">Hlíðarendi</name> in <name type="place" key="Fljót02">Fljótshlíð</name> (<date from="1511" to="1570">1511-70</date>) who was son of <name type="person" key="VigErl001">Vigfús
                           Erlendsson</name>
                        lögmaður (d. <date when="1521">1521</date>). Vigfús had a
                        brother, Narfi, and Narfi’s son Jón must be the other youngster named on fol. 33v of the manuscript. Since
                        the writer of the stanza from <title type="uniform">Skáld-Helga rímur</title> and what follows it on fol.
                        32v was also the scribe of the document in <ref type="ms">AM Fasc. XIII 1</ref>, it is evident that the
                        codex was in <name type="place" key="Eyjaf01">Eyjafjörður</name> region at the time and probably at <name type="place" key="Mýrka01">Mýrka</name> in <name type="place" key="Hörgá01">Hörgárdalur</name> when the
                        document was written in <date when="1451-11">November 1451</date>. Further support for the
                        location of the manuscript in the region around Eyjafjörður may be found in the occurrence of the name
                        Guðvardur on fol. 32v. <name type="place" key="Eyjafj02">Eyjafjarðarsýsla</name> appears to be the only
                        part of <name type="place" key="Icela01">Iceland</name> where this name was in use. </p>
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