Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Manuscripts:

BL Add. 6121

BL Add. 6121 (1700-1799)
British Library, London
1. (1r-2v) Letter from Charles Konig to Sir Joseph BanksNote: Dated June 24th 1809. Konig says he has shown the volume to Mr Herbert (brother to Lord Carnaervon) who has translated Icelandic poetry and lately published a work on it2. (3r-4v) A survey of the contentsDanish, LatinNote: F. 4 is written in Danish by Finnur Magnusson who says that he has had the manuscript "for en Tid...til Laans af Eÿeren" and made these remarks "efter hans private Anmodning". He believes it is written under the auspices of Eggert Ólafsson (cf. colophon f. 31v). F. 3 contains a Latin translation of these remarks, signed G. Vidalinus (i.e. Bishop Geir Vídalín)3. (5r-8r) Gautreks sagaIcelandicNote: Verse and extracts from the saga4. (8r-12v) Ketils saga hængsNote: Verse and extracts from the saga5. (12v-13v) Gríms saga loðinkinnaNote: Verse and extracts from the saga6.1. (13v-15r) Örvar-Odds sagaIcelandicNote: Verse and extracts from the saga6.2. (15r-20v) Örvar-Odds sagaIcelandicNote: Verse and extracts from the saga6.3. (20v-26v) Örvar-Odds sagaIcelandicNote: Verse and extracts from the saga7. (27r-32v) FagrskinnaIcelandicNote: Verse and extracts from the saga8. (32v-34v) HákonarmálIcelandic9. (34v-37v) Ragnars saga loðbrókarIcelandic10. (38r-38r) Ragnars saga loðbrókarIcelandicNote: Three stanzas from the last chapters of Ragnars saga loðbrókar11. (38r-44r) Hervarar saga og HeiðreksIcelandicNote: The riddles with versified solutions12. (44r-44v) Gátur noccrarIcelandicNote: The three riddles printed in Den Norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning A II, pp.228-9, augmented with a fourth (Fiórðo leit ek)13. (45r-47v) Gísla saga SúrssonarIcelandicNote: Extracts14.1. (47v-49v) Egils saga SkallagrímssonarIcelandicNote: Extract14.2. (49v-51r) Egils saga SkallagrímssonarNote: Extracts15. (51r-54r) Bergbúa þátturIcelandic16.1. (55r-59r) Merlínusspá16.2. (59v-69r) Merlínusspá16.3. (69r-71r) Merlínusspá17. (71v-77r) SólarljóðIcelandic18. (77v-87v) HugsvinnsmálIcelandic

CodexPaperiv, 87, v220mm x 170mmYesLater foliationGood160mm x 120mmNote: The vast majority is poetry laid out in two columns with the prose accompaniment in one column.UnknownTextualisMajor

Charles Dietrich KonigUnknownMinor

Geir VídalínUnknownMinor

Finnur MagnússonUnknownMinor

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Plain (later)

1700-1799

Geir Vídalín: OwnerSir Joseph Banks: Owner

Last update: 2013-01-08

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