Manuscript Detail

AM 1 f fol.

Langfeðgatal Norðlanda konunga ; Iceland or Denmark, 1635-1715

Contents

1 (1r-8v)
Langfeðgatal Norðlanda konunga
Rubric

„Langfedgatal“

Filiation

Transcript of passages occuring in the parchment manuscript AM 415 4to.

Language of Text
Icelandic
Text Class
Royal genealogies
1.1
Langfeðgatal Norðlanda konunga
Note

Fem slægtsregistre over Ynglingerne til Harald hårfagre, Skjoldungerne til Sigurd orm i øjes søn Hörda-Knut, de tre nordiske kongehuse til ca. 1319.

1.2
Register of the names of the counties in Norway
Text Class
Geography ; Tables of contents / indexes
2 (9r-18v)
Langfeðgatal
Rubric

„Längfedga-tal“

Note

F. 9 only carries this title.

Language of Text
Icelandic (primary); Latin
Text Class
Royal genealogies
2.1 (9r-v)
Árni Magnússon's information about the manuscript
Language of Text
Latin
Text Class
Notes (scholarly) ; Philology
2.2 (11r-18r)
Langfeðgatal Norðlanda konunga
Filiation

According to Kålund's catalogue this part is a transcript of both paper and parchment manuscripts.

Note

Contains a genealogy from Noah to the Aesir; ættbogi Noregs konunga; Harald Hairfair’s descent from Baldur, his reign, offspring, the settlement of Iceland; genealogy (ÆTTARBOGEN) in accordance with AM 415 4to; genealogies of Old English kings.

Language of Text
Icelandic
Text Class
Royal genealogies
3 (18v)
Talbyrðingur for the years 1140-1615
Rubric

„Talbyrdijngur hinn gamle med ſijnum Prikstfum“

Language of Text
Icelandic
Text Class
Calendars
4 (19r-28v)
No Title
Language of Text
Icelandic (primary); Latin
Text Class
Notes (scholarly)
4.1
Árni Magnússon's notes on the transcript and the original
Language of Text
Latin
4.2
Langfeðgatal
Rubric

„Lang fedga tal til nockurra Danmerk|ur og Noregs könga“

Filiation

Transcript of the previous item together with its talbyrðingr.

Language of Text
Icelandic
Text Class
Royal genealogies
5 (29r-36v)
Anglo-Saxon Genealogies
Text Class
Royal genealogies
6 (37r-50v)
Árni Magnússon's Notes to Langfeðgatal
Note

Loose leaves and slips.

Text Class
Notes (scholarly)

Physical Description

Support

Paper

No. of leaves
i + 50 + ii, fols 11 and 19 are blank. 210 mm x 170 mm
Foliation

Foliated by Kålund in red ink at the top of the pages.

Foliated 1-50 in pencil by conservators in 1981 (The first leaf has no foliation).

Pagination 1-69 in black ink at the top left of the recto pages (stops at f. 36r).

Collation
The manuscripts consists of three quires
  • I: i+1, 2, 3+8, 4+7, 5+6, 9.
  • II: 10+19, 11+18, 12, 13, 14+17, 15+16.
  • III: 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (slip), 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 , 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43+44, 45+47, 46, 48, 49, 50
Script

Ff. 1r-8v and 19r-36v are written by Árni Magnússon.

Ff. 11r-18r are written by Ketill Jörundsson.

The other scribes are unknown.

Additions
Various marginalia and other information intended for the reader on ff. 11-18, written in the same hand as the main text.
Binding

BD-standard binding from 1980 with cloth spine and corners. The borads are covered in greyish brown cloth. 220 mm x 190 mm x 18 mm

History

Origin

Written in Iceland or Denmark in the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century.

According to Árni Magnússon’s notes in Latin on ff. 10 and 20, ff. 11r-18r were written by the priest, Ketill Jörundsson , presumably provisioned by the bishop of Skálholt, Gísli Oddsson. Ketill Jörundsson was a School master at Skálholt between 1635-1638 and then became priest at Hvammur.

Provenance

Gísli Oddsson is said to have presented ff. 11-18 to Ole Worm. Possessions of the Worm family was subsequently acquired by Frederik Rostgaard.

Acquisition

Árni Magnússon bought ff. 11-18 at Rostgaard’s auction in 1726 (no. 723).

Additional

Record History

Updated October 26, 2023 by Jakob Þrastarson.

Bibliography

Title: Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling
Editor: Kålund, Kristian

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