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we begin to suspect that this chapter of Stb reflects a source which
had such characteristically literary interests.
The second half of Stb ch. 284 deals with Hr6arr Tungugooi,
the son of Uni and I>6runn:
Sonr Una ok 1>6runnar var Hr6arr Tungugooi: hann t6k arf Lei06lfs allan ok var
et mesta afarmenni. Hann atti d6ttur Hamundar, systur Gunnars fra Hlfoarenda;
peira son var Hamundr enn haiti, er var enn mesti vigamaor. Tjorvi enn haosami
ok Gunnarr varu (systur)synir Hr6ars. Tjorvi bao Astrioar manvitsbrekku
M606lfsd6ttur, en brceor hennar, Ketill ok Hr6lfr, synjuou honum konunnar,
en peir gafu hana Pori Ketilssyni. I>a dr6 Tjorvi likneski peira a kamarsvegg, ok
hvert kveld, er peir Hr6arr gengu til kamars, pa hrekoi hann i andlit likneski
1>6ris, en kyssti hennar likneski, aor Hr6arr sk6f at. Eptir pat skar Tjorvi pau a
knifsskepti sinu ok kvao petta:
Ver hofum par sem Pori,
pat vas sett via glettu,
auoar unga bnioi
aor a vegg of faoa.
Nu hefk, rastakarns, ristna,
reok mart vio Syn bjarta
hauka skopts, a hepti
Hlin olbcekis minu.
Her af gerousk vig beira Hr6ars ok systursona hans.
It is difficult to know exactly how much of this account was in Mb,
but it is likely that at least the verse was in it, since Pb provides
an alternative text for it, probably from Mb. The addition at the
end of the corresponding chapter in Pb probably represents most
of what was in Mb, as it is a summary of the events described in
Stb ch. 284 (lslendingabok, Landnamabok 1968, 302-3):
Her af geroisk fjandskapr peira meiri, ok vagu peir synir M606lfs, Ketill ok
Hrolfr, ok Brandr fra Gmipum fQourbr6oir peira ok 1>6rir Ketilsson, er atti
Astnoi, Hr6ar gooa ok Tjorva ok Kolbein.
It is noteworthy that in Pb the three men killed are called Hr6arr
gooi, Tjorvi and Kolbeinn. Kolbeinn was probably the correct
name of Tjorvi's brother, and the Gunnarr of Stb a mistake arising
from the mention of another Gunnarr a few lines earlier.
Hr6arr Tungugooi is also mentioned in Stb ch. 325, here in his
rightful geographical place, following a description of his grandfather
Lei06lfr. There are no helpful additions to Pb at this point
to show what Mb might have said. However, on reading Stb ch.
325, it is hard to escape the conclusion that only the first part of it
properly belongs to a Ldn text in terms of content and style. The
rest of the chapter reads like a summary of a much longer narrative.
It is not easy to decide where the summary begins: Hr6arr and his
children may properly be mentioned in a Ldn chapter about