Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Manuscripts:
AM 557 4to
AM 557 4to (1420-1450, Iceland)
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
1. (1r-3r) Valdimars sagaIcelandicNote: Beginning missing.2. (3r-10v) Gunnlaugs saga ormstunguIcelandicNote: Ending missing.3. (11r-22v) Hallfreðar saga vandræðaskáldsIcelandicNote: Beginning missing.4. (22v-27r) Hrafns saga SveinbjarnarsonarIcelandicNote: Incomplete.5. (27r-35v) Eiríks saga rauðaIcelandic6. (35v-38r) Rögnvalds þáttur og RauðsIcelandicNote: Variant of Rauðúlfs þáttur.7. (38r-40v) Dámusta sagaIcelandicNote: Ending missing.8. (41r-42v) Hróa þáttur heimskaIcelandicNote: Beginning and ending missing.9. (43r-44r) Eiríks saga víðförlaIcelandicNote: Beginning missing.10. (44r-45r) Stúfs þátturIcelandic11. (45r-48r) Karls þáttur vesælaIcelandic12. (48v-48v) Sveinka þáttur SteinarssonarIcelandicNote: Ending missing.
CodexParchmenti, 48, i186mm x 153mmLater foliationPoor: Originally written on low quality parchment. Holes throughout, and several pages are ripped.178mm x 138mmUnknownProtogothicSole
Low
  • Secondary (mixed): Blank spaces left for initials, except on fols. 16v and 24v, where traces of red ink can be seen in the blank space, and on fols. 27v and 38v, where they have been filled later with squiggles.
High

  • Corrections by scribe: 4r, 17v, 27v-28r, 31v, 37r, 40v, 43r, 46v.
  • Comments on text: 2v, 10v, 16v, 18v, 19r, 20r, 23v, 24v, 25v, 26v, 38v.
  • General comments: 27r, 47v.
  • Squiggles: 1v, 4v, 6v-7v, 10r-v, 12v, 13v-14v, 16v, 17v, 18v, 24v-26r, 27v-32v, 33v, 34v, 35v-36r, 37r, 38r-v, 40r-v, 43v-44r, 46r-47r.
  • Exclamation point: 35r.
  • Verse-indicators: 5v, 7r, 9r-10v, 12v, 15r, 16r, 18r, 19v, 21r, 22r, 24r, 26r, 33v.
  • Guide letters: 3r, 4r, 6r-v, 8v-9v, 13v, 15r, 16r, 17r, 20r, 21v, 22v-23v, 24v, 27v, 29r, 31r, 32r, 33v, 35r, 36v, 38r-39r, 40r-v, 43v-45r, 46r, 47v.
  • Symbols: 12v, 33r, 48r-v.
  • Titles on pages added in the 17th century.
Plain (later)
Dimensions: 225mm x 200mm x 29mm
1420-1450Iceland
Árni Magnússon: Jón Vídalín: Brynjólfur Sveinsson: Árni Magnússon got the manuscript from Jón Þorkelsson Vídalín. It belonged originally to either the church in Skálholt or Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson (see front note). A page of Dámusta saga (fol. 40) was found separately (see note).
Last update: 2015-02-04

 

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