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Finnur Jonsson finally says!) “that the Grenlendiga рабт is of 
such а kind that it would be quite hopeless to search the discovered 
countries and places, according to it, or by its assistance. It is quite 
another question with regard to the saga of Eric. If there exists at 
all anything in keeping with this detailed description, one would think 
that it would be possible to find them”. 
After the definite declarations of these authorities I will only abide 
by “Eric the Red’s Saga”. It is to be found in the Arna-Magnæan (AM.) 
collection of manuscripts, in two Icelandic leading versions; namely 
No. 544 and 557, 4to. They are of different dates. The oldest and best 
manuscript, No. 544, is generally called Hauksbök and is written in 
the beginning of the 14th century. The other, No. 557, is written about 
a century later, but probably derives from the same original manu- 
script as Hauksbok?). A paper manuscript, which is called М3) in 
Gronl. hist. Mindesm., belongs to the leading version AM. 557. Rafn 
writes about this that “it contains several remarkable supplements, and 
excellent reading, partly of such a description that the others’ faults 
could with difficulty be rectified without its aid’. As, meanwhile Finnur 
Jönsson’s opinion is that it is of no signification, I have only referred 
to it occasionally in the notes. 
The texts in the leading versions resemble each other so much 
that, as already mentioned, they must originate from a common source, 
which according to Finnur Jonsson is probably written about the year 
1200, but exists no longer. In Reeves’ meritorious work facsimiles of 
the manuscripts AM. 544 and 557 are to be found, together with 
Icelandic texts, which are revised by Professor Valtyr Guômundsson. 
Like the most of the earlier authors, Professor Steensby has used 
Hauksbok (AM. 544) with only a few references to AM. 557. As far as 
Karlsefni’s voyage is concerned, there are in AM. 557 several elucidatory 
additions and remarks to be found, which further the comprehension 
of the Saga, and which are not mentioned in Hauksbok. On the other 
hand the remarks in Hauksbök which are not to be found in AM. 557 
are of much less importance. I therefore think it best, in the sub- 
sequent paper, to use the text from AM. 557, which, as mentioned, is to be 
found printed in Reeves’ book, and compiled by AM. 544 in Storm’s 
“Eirik Saga Ваида”. 
As I do not know whether a complete translation of this version 
2) dock To PØL 
2) Gronl. hist. Mindesm. I, р. 349. — Storm op. cit. р. 306. — Finnur Jöns- 
son: Hauksbök 1892—96. р. LX XXIII. 
3) According to Gustav Storm’s: Eirik Saga Rauda (Copenhagen 1891) this 
manuscript is now to be found in the British Museum’s library. No. 11,126. This 
copy has been taken by Oddr Jönsson 1768. 
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