Möðruvallabók
Möðruvallabók (AM 132 fol.) Is one of the most famous Icelandic manuscripts . It was created around 1350 and contains the following Icelandic sagas as an anthology :
- Njáls saga
- Egil's saga
- Finnboga saga ramma
- Bandamanna saga
- Kormáks saga
- Víga-Glúms saga
- Droplaugarsona saga
- Ölkofra saga
- Hallfreðar saga
- Laxdæla saga
- Fóstbræðra saga
Möðruvallabók contains 200 folio sheets (approx. 34 × 24 cm), eleven of which were added in the 17th century to replace lost leaves. With the exception of these sheets, all the others come from a scribe, whose name is not known.
The first known owner of the book was Magnús Björnsson from Munkaþverá , who entered his name, date and place in 1628 while he was in Möðruvellir . In 1684 his son gave the book to the Danish scholar Thomas Bartholin . In 1690 it was bought by Árni Magnússon . On July 16, 1974 , the Codex returned to Iceland.
literature
- expenditure
- Möðruvallabók. AM 132 fol. Vol. 1 Index and Concordance. Vol. 2. Text. By Andrea van Arkel-de Leeuw van Weenen. Leiden 1987. ISBN 90-04-08622-6
- research
- Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen: A Grammar of Möðruvallabók. Leiden 2000. ISBN 90-5789-036-4
- Claudia Müller: Narrated knowledge. The Icelandic sagas in the Möðruvallabók (AM 132 fol.). Frankfurt / M. etc. 2001. ISBN 978-3-631-37750-5
- Gísli Sigurðsson / Vésteinn Ólason (ed.): The Manuscripts of Iceland. Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland, Reykjavík 2004, ISBN 978-9979-819-88-2 .