„Her hefr þatt af nornagesti“
„Sva er sagt at a einum tima þa | er Olafr kongr sat i Þrandheimi “
„ ok þotti sannazst | um lifdaga hans sem hann sagdi“
Rafn, Fornaldar Sögur Nordrlanda I s. 311-342 Ed. Þ
„Ex Codice Regio pertinet ad Olafs Saga Tryggvasona | mina ur Codex Flatensis “
„pag 842 lin 14 vera hversu sem þu seiger “
„875 12 Sem hann sagdi oc lykr þar fra | Nornagesti at segia.“
Paper with watermark .
Foliated 1-29 in red ink in the upper right hand corners by Kålund.
A catchword is found on fol. 2r.
Written in one column with 18 to 22 lines per page.
Fols 1-25 are written by Ásgeir Jónsson.
Fols 26-29 are written by Árni Magnússon.
The manuscript is now bound in a modern BD-binding. An old cardboard binding is kept with the manuscript.
On fol. 15 there is an AM-slip pasted in: NB Sigurdr Hringr atti | Alfhilldi dottur Gand-|alfs, Alfgeirs sonar. | Alfssonar, Raumssonar, | Nors sonar. | brædur konu hans | voru þesser Gandalfs | synir.
Fol. 16 has: Fenhring hodie Askóre vocant; Bergis | vicina est. Confundun-|tur antem heic diver-|si Starcadi; Etenim | hicce non est ille, de | qvo Hrolfi Gotricii | vita agit, qvi vika|rum Suspendit. Sed | antiqvitas omnia in | unum congestit.
The former cover of the first item (fols 1r-25v), containing Danish historical and geographical notes, is now made into the first quire of the manuscript. On this Árni Magnússon wrote: Nornagestz þattr | ex membranâ Regia. | Est qvasi Melagri | fabula. On two extra added leaves he states: Ur Nornagestz þætti. | Variæ lectiones Codicis Regii, | apatatæ ad Apographum meum Hi-|storiæ Olavi Tryggvonii ex Co-|dice Flateyensi, qvod exaratum | est manu Domini Jonæ Erlendii.
Probably written in Norway in the period 1688-1730.
Catalogued 29. júlí 2008 by Silvia Hufnagel.