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áre all taken notice of. The Skaldetai
was no more than a fupplement to
the Edda, as I fliall make it appear
prefently. I f therefore the learned
Magnaus had ever feen our Codex, he
certainly would not have entertained
this opinion.
In regard to thefe appendixes, I
am perfedly convinced that the catalogue
of Lagmen and the Langfedgatal^
or genealogy, are the works of Sturlefon
himíélí. The fubjed contained
in them refers entirely to Snorre, who
■was both Lagman and a defcendant
o f the Sturlunga family. The Aettar-
tal, or genealogical table, which from
the beginning defcends in a ftrait line
from the fathers and mothers iide to
the fons, at Sturle extends to all the
children, and daughters children ; yet
in fome inftances even there not to all
thefe, but moft probably to thofe only
ivho were alive when this Og enealootíical
table was compofed, The fame
is to he obferved in the catalogue
e f the Lagmen, where it is very accurately
mentioned how long every oiie
o f them poíTeíTed their place ; bnt at
the
the family o f Snorre the catalogue flops
without obferving how long they
maihtained this charge the laft time.
It is therefore impoifible that this
genealogy ftiould have been compofed
before Snorre’s t ime; nor is it lefs
improbable that any one iliould have
omitted in later times to add the fixteen
years during which Snorre was
Lagman the laft time ; or that he
iliould have forgot to mention this
circurnftance o f him in the whole lift
o f Lagmen, who was the moft coniiderable
o f them all.
I will in this place add, that it
Was very common, not only in the
North, but even in other parts, to
fubjoiii fuch lifts, genealogical tables,
and the like, to larger works, in order
to refcue them from oblivion, and
prevent their being totally loit to
pofterity. In the fame manner the
copyift of our Weft Gothic law had
added to it a Konunga Ldngd, or lift
o f kings, as likewife a lift o f the bi-
iliops of Skara and Lagmanner in V¥eft
Gothland. Are Frode has in like
iiiaiiner affixed his genealogy to his
Schedis,
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