Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Manuscripts:

AM 8 fol.

AM 8 fol. (1600-1699, Iceland)
Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen
1. (1r-35v) Ragnars saga loðbrókarIcelandicSaga Af Ragnnr Loð brők og mørgum auðrum kongum merkelegumHier hefur vpp og siger fra þeim er Sige hietOk þetta þolte mőnnum vndarlegt ok Søgðum frä øðrumm monnumm

CodexPaperi, 35, ii320mm x 206mmA fool with a five-pointed collar, the most central of the points is longer and ends in 3 balls instead of one. Cf. watermark in AM 65 fol.Later foliation: Foliated 1-35 in red ink by Kristian Kålund.Good280mm x 155mmOn pages catchwords are added by later hand.UnknownChancerySole

Low

Initial: Large first initial, later initial smaller. Decorated with ornaments in black ink.

High

Variants are written in another hand in the margin. According to Árni Magnússon's account on an accompanying slip, the variants come from a book belonging to lögmaður Sigurður Björnsson from Saurbær (1643-1723), which was written by lögréttumaður Sigurður Jónsson from Knörr (1633-1717); the source is presumably AM 281 4to. Inside the bilfolio AM-slip, which is bound in the front of the manuscript, there is an even smaller slip, possibly in the same hand as the variants, beginning with: "Sagann af Ragnare Lodbrök sem fornum var kongur yfer Danmork Norge Svïarïke, Biarmalande Finnlande, Einglande, Skotlande, Gelande, Windlande og SkotSaxlande: dö i Englande þä "

Moderately decorated (later)

Bound in a binding from 1700 to 1730 and 1880 to 1920. The binding has a parchment spine on which Árni Magnússon wrote: "Ragnars Saga Loðbrökar." The original parchment cover - from a missal in Latin containing notes - was partly replaced by a marbled paper-cover in 1911. On the pastedown Kålund has noted the date 7/8-1911.

The parchment leaves have been transferred to Acc. 7 β Hs 2 (Graduale Gufudalense), now constituting fols. 22 and 24.

1600-1699Iceland

Sigurður Jónsson: MarginalÁrni Magnússon: Owner

Last update: 2013-02-13

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