„ Saugubrot. | Af nockrum m fornköngum m j Dana ok | Svia velde Jvari Vydfadma Hræreke | Helga inum m Hvassa Harallde Hillde -| tøn n med Bravallar bardaga ok nockud | af Sigurde Hring epter þui sem fundizt | hafa ritud a nidlags Saurblada rifrilldum m | Sun n durlaus “
This is a copy of the defective manuscript AM 1 e β I fol. made by Sr. Jón Erlendsson í Villingaholti.
Rafn, Antiquités Russes I s. 67-86 Ed. B
Rafn, Fornaldar Sögur Nordrlanda I s. 361-388 Ed. B
„ 1. Brot vm m Konbonar før Helga Hins | Hvassa til Audar Hin n ar Diupaudgv | Jvars döttur Vïdfadma j Sviaryke Og | taalsvør Jvars | vpphafslaust. | Ord Audar vid fodur sin n fram m beran n de | eirinde Helga med vnderhẏggiu. “
„ ∗∗ Se eg ad þetta mäl þarf ad litt se a | a lopt borid ad men n bidie mÿn. “
„ blyþum m ordum m og | fgru m ∗∗∗. “
The scribe adds here: Hier wan n tar m ik ed vid fram m ad ellidogum m | Haralldar Hilldetan n ar.
„ ∗∗∗ Og a einv hauste sotte h an n a fun n d | Harallds kongs “
„ en n An n ar | Þrøndur gamli. “
„ Bravallar bardagi | midli Harallds kongs Hilldetan n ar. | Og Sigurdar Hrings. “
„ Ok er Haralldur köng ur Hilldetøn n var ordin n | so gamall er h an n hafde halft an n ad hundrad vetra “
„ þuiad allt forellri alf hilldar “
Paper .
The entire manuscript has been paginated in black ink on the recto side (1-37), and the first 14 leaves, i.e. those not left blank, have also been foliated (1-14) by Kålund in red ink (now somewhat faded as a result of conservation); the manuscript was refoliated in pencil (1-19) by Mariane Overgaard in 1980 in connexion with restoration.
Written in long lines throughout, with 22 to 25 lines per page. There are running titles in the same hand as the text.
Written, apart from fol. 12 , by Jón Erlendsson from Villingaholt in a clear seventeenth-century Gothic book hand.
Fol. 12 has been added later to replace a missing leaf; the hand is younger but appears consciously to imitate the hand of the main scribe.
Bound in Árni Magnússon 's time in parchment on cardboard, 310 mm x 196 mm x 6 mm
There is a slip ( 152 mm x 140 mm ) in Árni Magnússon's hand; the text reads: Fragment um Bravallar bardaga. Feinged til lans af Jone Þorlaks syne 1709. Sidan til kaups 1710. Er med hendi Sr Jons i Villinga hollte, og var in n bunded i bok med drum søgum.
The manuscript was written in Villingaholt in southern Iceland , in the mid-seventeenth century by Sr. Jón Erlendsson .
According to the accompanying slip, Árni Magnússon borrowed the manuscript from Jón Þorláksson in 1709 and then purchased it from him in the following year .
Catalogued 1. maí 1999 by MJD .
The manuscript was checked 28. maí 1885 by Kålund , who has written on the first fly-leaf: 1 volumen på 14 blade + 1 Arnamagnæansk seddelnotits. 28/5 85.
The manuscript was conserved 13 October-4 December 1980 .
The manuscript was checked 9 June-14 July 1997 by the conservators Mette Jakobsen and Marianne Lund Pedersen .
The manuscript was photographed in febrúar 1980 .
Supplementary photographs were made of the binding 2. febrúar 1998 .