Volsunga Saga (1r). Each text has its own title page.
„Cap: 1.“
„Svo hefer byriat eitt æfentijr af einum frægum | ok fiolmennum Fracklands konunge þat segia | sumar bækur at han hafe heitit Jatmundr“
„láte Gud oss ei giallda, sa hinn same Guds son glede oss alla“
Lykr hier nu Magus sogu
The tile page before the saga is for Völsunga saga and there is no title page or rubric with the title of Mágus saga.
The text is divided into 80 numbered chapters. The text corresponds to the edition of Bragða-Mágus saga by Gunnlaugur Þórðarson.
„Sogu þessa fann Philippus meistare á einum Steinvegg | i Paris Borg med latinu skrifada og snere henne á Norræ|nu, hún er só látande. Kongur sá rede fyrer Danmörk er Dagur hiet“
„og átte margt ágiætra | Barna með Herþrude og eru hans ættmenn bædi þeir | fyrre og sidare kallader Skiöldungar, og luklta hier þesse| Saga.“
F. 101r-v is blank and not paginated. F. 102r is unpaginated and serves as a titlepage: Skiöldunga Saga | edur af | Hringe og Skillde..
The text is divided into four numbered chapters.
In his article Skjaldar þáttr Danakonungs. A lost fornaldarsaga? Philip Lavender demonstrated that Hrings saga og Skjaldar circulated under parallel titles: Skjöldunga saga and Saga af fornkonungum í Danmörku og Svíaveldi.
Contemporaneous pagination. Items individually paginated (1-198; 1-11). Title pages are not paginated.
The text is written in one column. There are 32-34 written lines per page.
The dimensions of the written area are approx. 175 mm x 130 mm.
F. 101r-v is blank.
The manuscript is in good condition.
Written by Frederik Julius Schaldemose.
Manuscript is not decorated.
On the pastedown there is the shelfmark Acc 61 and the title Magus saga jarls written in pencil; there are also two titles written in ink: 1. Wolsunga Saga. and 2. Skoledunga Saga.
On f. 102r there is a note: (Efter et haandskrivt, som tilhörer prof: B. Thorlacius.) and a date 1816.
Half-binding from the 19th cent. Boards covered with marbled paper (dark gray, light gray and blue); light brown leather spine and corners.
A provenance sticker affixed to the foot of spine reads: “Nykjöbing Cath-Skole Bibliothek”.
Six panels on the spine with gilt embossing of three horizontal lines separating each panel.
The manuscript was written in Denmark at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The date 1816 is attested on f. 102r.
The manuscripts Acc. 51-62 belong to the collection of manuscripts Frederik Schaldemose bequeathed to Nykøbing Katedralskole. Most of them are Fredrik Schaldemose's transcriptions of Old Norse texts.
The Arnamagnæan Collection in Copenhagen acquired the manuscript from the school in April 2007 as a gift.
Catalogued from the manuscript on 29. október 2013 by Katarzyna Anna Kapitan.