Möðruvallabók
Möðruvallabók (Icelandic pronunciation:
- Njáls saga
- Egils saga
- Finnboga saga ramma
- Bandamanna saga
- Kormáks saga
- Víga-Glúms saga
- Droplaugarsona saga
- Ölkofra þáttr
- Hallfreðar saga
- Laxdœla saga
- Bolla þáttr Bollasonar
- Fóstbrœðra saga
Many of those sagas are preserved in fragments elsewhere but are only found in their full length in Möðruvallabók, which contains the largest known single repertoire of Icelandic sagas of the Middle Ages.
The manuscript takes its name from Möðruvellir
References
- ^ ISBN 9781134821389, pp. xi–xv, p. xv, note 1.
- OCLC 465745666, Volume 4, ed. Konráð Gíslason and Eiríkur Jónsson, Njála Volume 2, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1889, p. 666(in Danish)
- ^ Margaret Clunies Ross, The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse Icelandic Saga, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010, p. 144.
- ^ Emily Lethbridge. "„Hvorki glansar gull á mér/né glæstir stafir í línum." Arkiv för nordisk filologi 129 (2014): 53-89.
External links
- Images of manuscripts at the Árni Magnússon Institute site Archived 2005-12-20 at the Wayback Machine (Möðruvallabók is the second from the top in the list)
- Best quality images at handrit.is
- Text in Icelandic at the Árni Magnússon Institute site Archived 2005-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Entry at Sagnanet[permanent dead link]
- Árni Magnússon and the Collecting of Icelandic Manuscripts
Media related to Möðruvallabók at Wikimedia Commons
Further reading
- Bjarni Einarsson. "Um Möðruvallabók". Tíminn, 17 June 1965, p. 25 (in Icelandic)
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