Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Manuscripts:

AM 4 fol.

AM 4 fol. (1641-1687, Iceland)
Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen
1. (1r:1-21r:8) Völsunga saga [Latin] (defective)LatinIN RAGNARI LODBROCI Historiam paraphrasisCodex αχέφαλος erat Revertens autem sub vesperam domumvelorum in primis accurata spesiosaqve picturaNKS 1824 4toNote: ends in chapter 172. (24r:1-25v:48) Völsunga saga [Latin] (defective)Latinatqve etiam sevios(?) rogitaus(?)antiquitate æstimatus(?) habetuz(?) gr:Pannolebriov Note: chapters 8 to 10

CodexPaperi, 25330mm x 200mm"K" and a snake of a stick on the opposite side.Later foliation: Foliated in bottom margins.Average275-310mm x 135-200mmNote: fols. 21v-23v are blank.NoTorfi JónssonUnknownMajor

Info: Torfi Jónsson from Gaulverjabær wrote fols. 1-21.

Sveinn JónssonUnknownMinor

Info: Sveinn Jónsson from Barð wrote fols. 24-25.

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There are two AM-slips. The one in the beginning of the manuscript reads: "Versionem Latinam Ragnars Sogu, sem eg hefi med hende Sr Torfa Jonssonar i Gaulveribæ, corrigerada af Mag. Bryniolfi. seger Sr Jon Torfason fodur sinn giort i Skalhollte, þa hann var ut Skolavetrenum adr enn hann (Torfe) siglde um sumared epter, idqve Jubente Bryniolfo. Eg feck þesse blod i Gaulveriabæ 1704. Sr Torfe deponerade in Decembri 1642. Ergo er versionem giord um veturenn 1641-42. a audru are Mag. Bryniolfs." The second slip used to be located between fols. 23 and 24, but is now in the beginning with the other slip: "Mun ei þetta kunna ad vera Sr Jsleifs uppkast, Munde hann ei vertera Ragnars-Sogu, α þä hann var hiä Jone Eggertssyne. α] Non: Ecki finn eg þad neinstadar, og ei hefur hann sialfur skrifad mier þad til, enn hann þö nefnt adrar sogur er hann snere. þetta er og, ad vïsu, ecki hond Sr Jsleifs. þad er hond Sr Sveins a Barde". Scholarly notes and corrections on fols. 1r-3v

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Grey cardboard binding; "No 4. Fragmentum Historiæ Lodbroki latine" written on front cover. The paste-down is made from printed material.

1641-1687IcelandNote: The first translation of Völsunga saga was made in the winter 1641-42 by Torfi Jónsson, later priest of Gaulvejarbær, commissioned by bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson. The second translation must have been made before 1687.

Brynjólfur Sveinsson: CommissionerTorfi Jónsson: TranslatorSveinn Jónsson: TranslatorÁrni Magnússon: OwnerÁrni Magnússon acquired the manuscript in 1704.

Last update: 2013-04-09

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