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AM 673 b 4to

Placítusdrápa ; Iceland, 1190-1210

Note
The text is only preserved in AM 673 b 4to, which is considered one of the earliest surviving vernacular manuscripts. It is the oldest manuscript preserving containing a poem in dróttkvætt. It contains numerous mistakes and Louis-Jensen (Louis-Jensen 1998, xcix) therefore infers it was a copy of an earlier manuscript that is now lost.

Contents

(1r-5v)
Placítusdrápa
Bibliography

Finnur Jónsson, Plácitusdrápa 214-222

Finnur Jónsson, Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning 1A607-618 1B606-622

Louis-Jensen: Plácitus drápa 93-123

Louis-Jensen & Wills: Plácitusdrápa179-220

Language of Text
Old Norse

Physical Description

Support

Parchment.

No. of leaves
5. 185 mm x 125 mm.
Condition
The leaves are badly worn and eleven stanzas from the beginning and eight stanzas from the end of the drápa are missing.
Script

Mainly written in carolingian minuscule.

History

Origin

Iceland, c. 1200.

According to Louis-Jensen ( ibid. xcii-xciii ) AM 673 b 4to was part of a larger manuscript, that probably included AM 673 a II 4to, containing fragments of the Icelandic Physiologus and two sermons.

Bibliography

Title: Opuscula philologica: Mindre Afhandlinger, Plácitusdrápa: efter håndskriftet no 673 B i den Arna-Magn. saml.
Editor: Finnur Jónsson
Scope: p. 210-264
Author: Haraldur Bernharðsson
Title: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Scribal Culture in Thirteenth-Century Iceland: the Introduction of Anglo-Saxon “f” in Icelandic Script
Scope: 117:3
Author: Jón Helgason
Title: , Til skjaldedigtningen
Scope: VII
Title: , Plácitus drápa
Editor: Louis-Jensen, Jonna
Scope: 31
Title: Poetry on Christian Subjects, Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, Plácitusdrápa
Editor: Louis-Jensen, Jonna, Wills, Tarrin
Scope: VII
Title: Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling
Editor: Kålund, Kristian
Title: Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning
Editor: Finnur Jónsson
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