A copy of AM 666 b 4to from the late eighteenth century is preserved as NKS 1832 4to in The Royal Library in Copenhagen.
„kvað |na i heiminum “
„at þessi strengleícr er fegrstr allra ok hann | heitir strengleicrenn tveggia elskannde.“
Keyser and Unger, Strengleikar 1850 s. 84-89
Cook and Tveitane, Strengleikar 1979 s. 262-276
ok lykr | her þesarre sogv
„GRelentz saga“
A copy of AM 666 b 4to from the late eighteenth century is preserved as NKS 1832 4to in The Royal Library in Copenhagen.
„Nv vil ec segía yðr einn atburð. um | mann þann er Grelent var kallaðr“
„þat er hann mætti veðsetía | nema mottvll einn er litils var verðr. ok sveinn“
Keyser and Unger, Streingleikar 1850 s. 89-91
Cook and Tveitane, Strengleikar, 1979 s. 280-286
Parchment.
Written in double columns. Majuscules in red and blue ink, rubrics in red ink.
All of the leaves are cut for use in the lining of a bishop's mitre. Of fols 1 and 2 only the remainders of the inner columns are preserved.
On an AM-slip belonging to this fragment Árni Magnússon has written: Þetta var innanï | einni biskups hufu, | (mitra) i Skal-|holti 1703. | GRelentz saga er…
The manuscript was written in Norway c. 1270 (e.g. Cook & Tveitane 1979 s. x ). Kålund's dating: The thirteenth century ( Katalog II s. 77 ).
Cf. the AM-slip: Þetta var innanï | einni biskups hufu, | (mitra) i Skal-|holti 1703.
Catalogued 24. maí 2000 by EW-J.
Exhibited at the The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), Copenhagen, from 8 November 1963 to 6 January 1964.
Exhibited at Nordiska Museet, Stockholm from 12 September to 22 November 1972.
Exhibited at Malmöhus museum from 24 April to 11 May 1973.
Exhibited at The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), Copenhagen, for the exhibition Trusler og tyvekoster from 11 May to 30 December 2006.
Lent to The National Archival Services of Norway (Riksarkivet), Oslo for the use of Finn Hødnebø from 15 January 1968 to 17 January 1970.
Lent to the University of Bergen Library, (Bergen Universitetsbibliotek) for the use of Mattias Tveitane from 28 October 1977 to 11 may 1978.
In mars 1963 the MS was put in 2 plastic pockets, put on meeting guards and bound in a blue acid-free cardboard cover.
Rebound 10. nóvember 1998 and then put in pockets of polyester and bound in a cardboard cover.