Prersumably the saga was transcribed from a parchment manuscript, cf. e.g. Kålund Katalog I s. 9 and Finnur Jónsson Hrólfs saga kraka og Bjarkarímur s. i , Slay The Manuscripts of Hrólfs saga kraka , however, consider AM 9 fol a transcript of the paper volume AM 12 b fol, even though deviations between AM 9 fol and AM 12 b fol occur.
Rafn, Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda I Ed. A
Finnur Jónsson, Hrólfs saga kraka og Bjarkarímur
Slay, Hrólfs saga kraka Ed. cit., var.app. (“9”)
The saga is divided into unnumbered chapters. It is, however, divided into þættir with Fróða þáttr as the first.
„Frőda þttur“
„ Madur hiet Halfdan. Enn ann ar Frőde | brædur tveir og Konga sner.“
„Enn vppbyriast fra Hroar og Helga Halfdanar sonum“
„Af Hroar Og Helga Half|danar Sonum.“
„ Kőngur hiet Nordre. Hann ried fyrer nockrum hluta Einglands.“
„Þau Yrsa unnust mked og attu eirn son þann Hrolfur | hiet / er mykill mæta madur vard sdann “
„Olof drottning spr ad þau Helge konungr og Yrsa vnntuzt | mked og vna vel rade snv.“
„Og lykur hier þætte Helga kőngs.“
„Adels kőngur hrosade nv Sigre og þottist | miaug hafa framast er han vann kong so agjæt | ann sem Helge var “
„enn honumm þotte raunar ecke mle skypta þott Suipdagur feinge osigur og stynge nidur nøsumm “
„Nu buazt þeir brædur j burt og stodar ecke ad hamla | þeim.“
„Og endar hier Søgu Hrolfs | kongs Kraka / Og kappa hanns.“
Paper.
Written by Jón Erlendsson of Villingaholt. The writing is clear.
From between 1700-1730. Full-bound: parchment with with laced-in single endband supports. On the spine, below a green slip, the title: Hrolfs Kraka Saga. is seen, possibly in Arne Magnusson's hand. On the recto of the first flyleaf, below an AM-slip, Kålund wrote the date 5. júní 1885. The size of the binding is 307 mm x 202 mm x 15 mm.
Written in Iceland in the seventeenth century.
All we know for certain about the history of this MS is how Árni Magnússon acquired it. According to the AM-slip he borrowed it from Jón Þorláksson in 1709 and in 1710 he brought it from him. AM 9 fol was at that time bound at the very front of a larger codex. Árni Magnússon subsequently removed the saga from the volume and bound it seperately.
Catalogued 18. febrúar 2009 af EW-J.
Updated 5. desember 2023 by Jakob Þrastarson.