Manuscript Detail
AM 8 fol.
View ImagesVölsunga saga — Ragnars saga loðbrókar; Iceland, 1600-1699
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOUBLE ACUTESpecial character shown similar to its original form.
Contents
Ragnars saga loðbrókar — “Saga Af Ragnar Loð brők | og mørgum auðrum kongum merke|legum”
“Hier hefur vpp og siger fra”
“Ok þetta þo|lte mőnnum vndarlegt ok | Søgðum frä ỏðrumm | monnumm”
Rafn, Fornaldar Sögur Nordrlanda vol. I p. 113-299 Ed. G
Icelandic
Physical Description
Parchment.
Foliated 1-35 in red ink by Kristian Kålund.
A large amount of catchwords are found.
Written in long lines with 35 to 45 lines to the page.
Written in a seventeenth century fracture hand.
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.
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 7/8-1911.
The parchment leaves have been transferred to Acc. 7 β Hs 2 (Graduale Gufudalense), now constituting fols 22 and 24.
- There are two accompanying slips
- The first is by Árni Magnússon: “Bryniolfe Einars son seiger, ad a | þessarre Ragnars Sỏgu sie hverki | hỏnd Kolbeins Hannesonar nie | Pals Sveinssonar. | Sera Gisle Alfsson seigest eigi þeck-|ia hỏndena a 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 a 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 þa hann hafde | kongur verid i 24. ar, Anno Christi 841. Reiknast af Chronologis | sa 57 i Danskra Konga tale. Þesse Saga hefst med Wolsunga | þætte af Sigurde Fofnisbana, [?]|”.
History
Written in Iceland in the seventeenth century.
Additional
Catalogued 18 April 2006 by EW-J.
microfilm (master) Gl. neg 2s.d. The manuscript before restoration. Reduced size. microfilm (archive) Gl. pos 2s.d. The manuscript before restoration. Reduced size. b/w prints AM 8 fol. 1 April 1980 Prints of Gl. neg 2 and Gl. pos. 2 microfilm Neg. 586 1 January 1981 Before restoration: fols 13v, 16v, 17v, 20v, 22r, and 33r b/w prints AM 8 fol. 1 May 1981 Prints of Neg. 587 diapositive Neg.lom. 23 14 November 1997 6x6 portraits: Front, back, spread: 14v-15r; lower section and "kapitælbånd" fotographed when the book was opened. b/w prints AM 8 fol. 17 November 1997 Prints of Neg.lom. 23 digital Hard disk 1 7 June 2005 Portraits: Front, back, spine, paste-downs front/back perms, spread, lower section diapositive pocket no. 23 17 November 1997 6x6 supplementary photographs of the spine. b/w prints AM 8 fol. 17 November 1997 Prints of the 6x6 supplementary photographs of the spine.
Bibliography
| Author | Title | Editor | Scope |
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| Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda: Eptir gömlum handritum | ed. Carl Christian Rafn | I: p. 113-299 | |
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| Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling | ed. Kristian Kålund | I: p. 9 |