Manuscripts:
AM 194 c fol.
AM 194 c fol. (1600-1699, Iceland)
Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen
1. (1r:1-7r:18) Gautreks sagaIcelandicSaga Gauta og Gautreks kongaNote: Rubric in different ink, probably added later2. (7v:1-7v:13) First verse of Harðar saga og HólmverjaIcelandicNote: Incomplete
Last update: 2013-01-30Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen
1. (1r:1-7r:18) Gautreks sagaIcelandicSaga Gauta og Gautreks kongaNote: Rubric in different ink, probably added later2. (7v:1-7v:13) First verse of Harðar saga og HólmverjaIcelandicNote: Incomplete
CodexPaperi, 7, i312mm x 200mmThe watermarks looks like a city or castle with three towers. The lower margin is
round, and the two towers to the right and left are smaller.Later foliation: Foliated 1-7 in dark ink in the top outer corners, probably by a later hand.Average: The manuscript has been restored and rebound. On fol. 7r text is lost due to
wear.241mm x 138mmNoJón ErlendssonChanceryMajor
Info: Fols. 1r-7r were written by Jón Erlendsson.
Þorleifur KláussonSemihybridaMinorInfo: Fol. 7v was written by the priest Þorleifur Kláusson.
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Low
- On fol. 7r is written: "alfur gilsason [sic] Anno 1673", and on fol. 7v"Solmundur Bergsueinßon meh". This Álfur might be identical with the "lögréttumaður"Álfur Gíslason at Reykir in Ölfuss, and Sólmundur might be Sólmundur Bergsveinsson, brother of Hafliði. The first two lines of the poem on fol. 7v were repeated by a different hand. On the inside of the binding is a manuscript fragment containing an unidentified text.
Plain (later)
The manuscript was once bound in a grey cardboard binding from c. 1730-80 with "No 194. C. Saga Gauta og Gautreks Konga."
written on the front board. It is now bound in a modern BD-standard binding measuring. The original binding is stored in the same box as the manuscript.
1600-1699
Iceland
Iceland
Árni Magnússon: OwnerBrynjólfur Sveinsson: CommieBrynjólfur Sveinsson: OwnerÞorleifur Kláusson: OwnerSölmundur Bergsveinsson: OtherÁlfur Gíslason: OtherHast (Pappershandskrifterna till Harðar saga, p. 173 ) assumes the
manuscript was written for bishop Brynjólfur
Sveinsson. According to Hast, it might have
been bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson who gave the
manuscript to Þorleifur Kláusson. The latter might
have then lent it to the father of Sólmundur
Bergsveinsson at Hrafnkelsstaðir and to Álfur
Gíslason at Reykir in Ölfuss.
