thread is red gold, and Sægrímir is white gold. And the ring has been made as a memento for the man who has experienced great sorrow, so that he shall often think upon his sorrows when he looks at it, and I name it Gáinn.’ Lavender suggests that the riddle is in fact in some variety of eddaic verse. Manuscripts The Stories for All Time project and Philip Lavender list the following 47 surviving manuscripts of the saga: Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen: AM 179 fol.; Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík: AM 181 l fol.; AM 181 m fol.; AM 537 4to and AM 582 4to (originally from the same MS); AM 576 b 4to (excerpt/summary); AM 576 c 4to (excerpt/summary); AM 585 e 4to; Arnamagnaean Collection, Reykjavík: SÁM 6; British Library, London: BL Add. 4863; Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA: Icel. MS. 32; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore: Nikulás Ottenson 9; Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen: Kall 614 4to; NKS 1144 fol. (excerpt/summary); Kungliga biblioteket, Stockholm: Engestr. B. III. 1. 20.; Papp. 4to nr 16; Papp. 4to nr 32; Papp. 8vo nr 8; Papp. fol. nr 102; Papp. fol. nr 98 (Swedish translation); Perg. 4to nr 6; Landsbókasafn Íslands, Reykjavík: ÍB 277 4to; ÍB 185 8vo; ÍBR 47 4to; JS 8 fol.; JS 27 fol.; JS 623 4to; JS 635 4to; JS 641 4to; JS 407 8vo; Lbs 644 4to; Lbs 1331 4to; Lbs 1509 4to; Lbs 1629 4to; Lbs 2462 4to; Lbs 3625 4to; Lbs 1687 8vo; Lbs 1996 8vo; Lbs 2207 8vo; Lbs 2497 8vo; Lbs 4370 8vo; Lbs 4492 8vo; Lbs 4813 8vo; Private collections: Böðvar Kvaran 11 4to; Riksarkivet, Stockholm: Säfstaholmssamlingen I Papp. 3; Byggðasafnið á Skógum: Skógar (no shelfmark); University Library, Yale, New Haven, CT: MS Z 113.81 Editions and translations Sagan af Þjalar-Jóni, ed. by Gunnlaugur Þórðarson, 2nd edn (Reykjavík: Jón Helgason, 1907) (first edn Reykjavík, 1857) Þjalar Jóns saga. Dámusta saga, ed. by Louisa Fredrika Tan-Haverhorst (Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink & zoon, 1939) [diss. Universiteit Leiden] Romances: Perg 4:0 nr. 6 in the Royal Library, Stockholm, ed. by Desmond Slay, Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimile (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde og Bagger, 1972) [facsimile of earliest MS] 'Þjalar-Jóns saga', trans. by Philip Lavender, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 46 (2015), 73-113 [English translation] Cecilia White, 'Þjalar-Jóns saga: The Icelandic Text with an English Translation, Introduction and Notes' (unpublished MA Thesis, University of Iceland, 2016).