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AM 8 fol.

Völsunga saga ; Iceland, 1600-1699

Note
Divided into sixty chapters with no distinction between the two sagas.

Contents

Ragnars saga loðbrókar
Incipit

„Hier hefur vpp og siger fra “

Explicit

„Ok þetta þo|lte mőnnum vndarlegt ok | Søgðum frä ỏðrumm | monnumm“

Bibliography

Rafn, Fornaldar Sögur Nordrlanda I p. 113-299 Ed. G

Language of Text
Icelandic
Text Class
Mythical-heroic sagas

Physical Description

Support

Parchment.

No. of leaves
35 + i. 320 mm x 210 mm.
Foliation

Foliated 1-35 in red ink by Kristian Kålund.

Collation

A large amount of catchwords are found.

Layout

Written in one column with 35 to 45 lines per page.

Script

Written in a seventeenth century fracture hand.

Additions

Variants are written in another hand in the margin. According to Árni Magnússon's account on an accompanying slip, the variants come from a book belonging to lögmaður Sigurður Björnsson from Saurbær (1643-1723) and was written by lögréttumaður Sigurður Jónsson from Knörr (1633-1717); the source is presumably AM 281 4to.

Binding

Bound in a binding from 1700 to 1730 and 1880 to 1920. The binding has a parchment spine on which Árni Magnússon wrote: Ragnars Saga Loðbrökar. The original parchment cover - from a missal in Latin containing notes - was replaced by a marbled paper-cover in 1911 . On the pastedown Kålund has noted the date August 07, 1911.

The parchment leaves have been transferred to Acc. 7 aβ, Hs 2 (Graduale Gufudalense), now constituting fols 22 and 24.
Accompanying Material

  • There are two accompanying slips
  • The first is by Árni Magnússon: Bryniolfe Einars son seiger, ad | þessarre Ragnars Sỏgu sie hverki | hỏnd Kolbeins Hannesonar nie | Pls Sveinssonar. | Sera Gisle Alfsson seigest eigi þeck-|ia hỏndena þessarre Ragn-|ars sỏgu. | Variæ Lectiones in margine erum tek-|nar ur Exemplarr Sigurdar Biỏrns-|sonar Lỏgmanns. Var i 4to med hen-|de Sigurdar Jonssonar Knỏr.
  • The second slip, written by an unknown scribe, contains notes on Ragnar Lodbrók: Sagann af Ragnare Lodbrők sem fordum var kongur yfer | Danmork Norege Svïarïke, Biarmalande finnlande, Einglande, Skot-|lande, Irlande, Windlande og Skot Saxlande : Dő i Englande þ hann hafde | kongur verid i 24. r, Anno Christi 841. Reiknast af Chronologis | s 57 i Danskra Konga tale. Þesse Saga hefst med Wolsunga | þætte af Sigurde Fofnisbana, [?]| .

History

Origin

Written in Iceland in the seventeenth century.

Additional

Record History

Catalogued April 18, 2006 by EW-J.
Surrogates

  • Microfilm (master), Gl. neg 2, s.d. (before restoration, reduced size).
  • Microfilm (archive) Gl. pos 2, s.d. (before restoration, reduced size).
  • Black and white prints, AM 8 fol., from April 01, 1980 (Prints of Gl. neg 2 and Gl. pos. 2).
  • Microfilm, Neg. 586, from January 01, 1981 (before restoration: fols 13v, 16v, 17v, 20v, 22r, and 33r).
  • Black and white prints from May 01, 1981 (of Neg. 587).
  • Diapositives, Neg.lom. 23, from November 14, 1997 (6x6 portraits: Front, back, opening: 14v-15r; bottom section and headband).
  • Black and white prints from November 17, 1997 (of Neg.lom. 23).
  • Digital, Hard disk 1, from June 07, 2005 (portraits: Front, back, spine, paste-downs upper and lower boards, opening, bottom section).
  • Diapositives, pocket no. 23, from November 17, 1997 (6x6 supplementary photographs of the spine).
  • Black and white prints from November 17, 1997 (prints of the 6x6 supplementary photographs of the spine).

Bibliography

Title: Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda: Eptir gömlum handritum
Editor: Rafn, Carl Christian
Title: Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling
Editor: Kålund, Kristian
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