Hulda-Hrokkinskinna

Hulda-Hrokkinskinna is one of the

The saga is based on

The saga is preserved in two manuscripts. Hulda ("the hidden manuscript") or AM 66 fol. is an Icelandic manuscript from the last part of the 14th century. It consists of 142 leaves while the first six (the first quire) are lost. Hrokkinskinna ("wrinkled parchment") or GKS 1010 fol. is an Icelandic manuscript from the beginning of the fifteenth century. Its first 91 leaves contain the text of Hulda-Hrokkinskinna while its last four leaves, added in the 16th century, contain an incomplete version of Hemings þáttr Áslákssonar. The text of Hulda is better than that of Hrokkinskinna.

Hulda-Hrokkinskinna contains a number of

• Þorgríms þáttr Hallasonar
• Hrafns þáttr Guðrúnarsonar
• Hreiðars þáttr
• Halldórs þáttr Snorrasonar
• Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka
• Brands þáttr örva
• Þorsteins þáttr sögufróða
• Þorvarðar þáttr krákunefs
• Sneglu-Halla þáttr
• Odds þáttr Ófeigssonar
• Stúfs þáttr
• Gísls þáttr Illugasonar
• Ívars þáttr Ingimundarsonar
• Gull-Ásu-Þórðar þáttr
• Þinga þáttr

The text of Hulda-Hrokkinskinna was printed in the sixth and seventh volumes of Fornmanna sögur in 1831 and 1832. As of 2006, the saga has not been published again. The Danish scholar Jonna Louis-Jensen has done extensive work on Hulda-Hrokkinskinna. In 1968, she published a facsimile edition of Hulda and in 1977 a critical analysis of the saga. She has almost completed a new critical edition of the saga.

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