Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Manuscripts:

AM 1020 4to

AM 1020 4to
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, ReykjavíkFormer shelf mark: Addit. 57 4to
This manuscript consists of 2 parts.

Moderately decorated (later)

Late 18th-century binding: marbelled paper, black fabric spine and corners, turquoise label.

AM 1020 I 4to (1735, Iceland)

Contemporary1. (1r:1-19v:20) Grettis saga (Extracts)Jón Ólafsson úr GrunnavíkIcelandicInn-tak vijsnanna ij Grettes søgu, saman tekit af þeim er þar ij jaatade o-fullkomleik sinnVijsnanna auctor hallda sumer antiqvariiund-klacks hugar rackum.Kona! ätta menn gätu ei vond saxnum ur hende hins hughrausta Grettes [þä er hann var daudur] fyrr enn þrir hiuggu af hónum hendena. Tantum.Note: Title page on front flyleaf recto reads: "Vijsur sem eru ij Grettis Sògu wt-þijddar Hafniæ 1735."Note: 12 lines of text on fol. 20r related to these verses. Dated 1741 with the autograph of a certain Oddur Þorkelsson.

CodexPaperi, 20203mm x 165mmYesLater foliation: Foliated in the upper corner of fols. 1 and 10.Good178mm x 125mmJón Ólafsson Grunnavíkur-JónKurrentSole

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Medium

Contains emendations and variant readings throughout. Some are from the scribe, while others are in a later hand.

1735IcelandNote: Dated to the 18th century by Kålund (Katalog, II:295). Dated 1735 on front flyleaf recto (former cover).

Árni Magnússon: Owner

AM 1020 II 4to (1672-1750, Iceland)

1. (1r:1-7v:x) Hervarar saga og Heiðreks (Extracts)Olaf VereliusIcelandicSo qvad Hervor i Säms EyuWaknadu Angantyr, vekr þig Hervoret hierosolimam fairus incidit runasHæc omnia ex notis Olavi Verelij, ad sogu Hervarar editæ Upsalæ Anno 1672.Note: Contains poetic extracts, Swedish translations and commentary of the U version of the saga from Olaf Verelius' 1682 edition.

CodexPaperii, 7, i208mm x 166mmYesLater foliationGood155mm x 115mmUnknownUnknownSole

Info: scribe used multiple scripts in a (rather successful) attempt to copy the various fonts present in the printed edition

Moderate

Illustration: Contains images of runic inscriptions copied from Verelius' edition on fols. 4v, 5r and 6v.

1672-1750Iceland

Árni Magnússon: Owner

Last update: 2015-02-12

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