Manuscript Detail
AM 192 fol.
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Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs; Iceland, 1600-1699
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOUBLE ACUTESpecial character shown similar to its original form.
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE PPSpecial character shown similar to its original form.
Contents
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs
“Hervarar þattur hinn gamle | finnst so skrifadur sem hier epter | fÿlger.”
“Svo finnst ritad j fornum bőkumm ad | Jothunheimar voru kallader nordur vmm | Gandvÿk,”
“þa streingdu heit | Arngrẏmssẏner. etct.”
Icelandic
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs
“Søgu þattur af Heidreke | Kőnge og Hanns ættmonnumm”
“Sigurlame hiet kongur er ried fyrer | Gardarijke. Hanns dotter var Eyfura”
“Philippus atte Jnge|gerde dottur Haralldz kongs Sigurdssonar; var hann | skamma stunnd kőngur.”
Björn Jónson of Skarðsá's comment on the Heiðreks-riddles has been added. The riddle section is written in two columns; the riddles are written in the left column with Björn's comments in the right.
Icelandic
Physical Description
Paper.
Foliated in dark ink in the top outer corners.
Catchwords are found on fols 10v, 20v and 30v.
Written in one column with 23 to 25 lines per page. Fols 19v:8-27v are written in two columns, with Heiðreks gátur on the left and Björn Jonsson's comment on the right column. Open space for initals on fols 1r and 5r. Running titles.
Written in Jón Erlendsson's fracture-hand.
There is an AM-slip pasted to the front. Here Árni Magnússon wrote: “Heidreks Saga med | Hervarar þætte. | med hendi Sr Jons i Villingahollte. | lied mier af Jone Þorlackssyne 1709, | og sidann selld 1710. | Var tilforna i innbundinni bok.”
History
Written in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Jón Erlendsson.
According to Árni Magnússon's account on the AM-slip, he borrowed the fragment from Jón Þorláksson in 1709, and bought it from him in 1710.
Additional
Catalogued 25 February2002 by EW-J. Checked 30 May 2008 by Silvia Hufnagel.
Bibliography
| Author | Title | Editor | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hervararsaga | ed. Peter Frederik Suhm | p. 2-16:8 | |
| Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda: Eptir gömlum handritum | ed. Carl Christian Rafn | I: p. 411-417:5 | |
| Hervararsaga | ed. Peter Frederik Suhm | p. 16:8-228 | |
| Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda: Eptir gömlum handritum | ed. Carl Christian Rafn | I: p. 417:6-512 | |
| Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks Konungs | ed. N. M. Petersen | p. 3-60 | |
| Heiðreks saga: Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs, STUAGNL | ed. Jón Helgason | 1924; XLVIII | |
| Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling | ed. Kristian Kålund | I: p. 159 |
