Morkinskinna

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One sheet of the Morkinskinna manuscript

The Morkinskinna is an Old Norse royal saga that tells the story of the Norwegian kings from around 1025 to 1157. The saga was written in Iceland around 1220 and has been preserved in a manuscript from around 1275. The name Morkinskinna means "moldy parchment" and is originally the name of the manuscript book in which the saga was preserved. The book itself, GKS 1009 fol, is currently in the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen . It was brought to Denmark from Iceland in 1662 by Þormóður Torfason (Tormod Torfæus) . In 2000 the saga was translated into English by Theodore Murdock Andersson and Kari Ellen Gade .

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The saga begins in 1025 or 1026 and ends in the surviving manuscript in 1157 after the death of King Sigurd II . Originally the saga will have been longer and possibly extend to 1177, like the stories Fagrskinna and Heimskringla , which the Morkinskinna use as one of their sources. In addition to the main saga, the text is supplemented with quotes from lavishly interspersed Skaldic verses (about 270 stanzas) and contains a number of short Icelandic fairy tales known as Þættir

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  • Finnur Jónsson (Ed.): Morkinskinna . Copenhagen: Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk litteratur (1932) online (PDF; 19.5 MB).
  • Ármann Jakobsson, Þórður Ingi Guðjónsson (eds.): Morkinskinna I – II. Íslenzk fornrit 23-24. Reykjavík: HID íslenzka fornritafélag (2011).
  • Theodore Murdock Andersson, Kari Ellen Gade (transl.): Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51 (2000). ISBN 0-8014-3694-X

literature

  • Ármann Jakobsson, "Den kluntede afskriver: Finnur Jónsson og Morkinskinna" Opuscula 11 (2003): 289-306.
  • Ármann Jakobsson, "Staður í nýjum Heimi. Konungasagan Morkinskinna." Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2002.
  • Ármann Jakobsson, "The Amplified Saga: Structural Disunity in Morkinskinna." Medium Aevum 70.1 (2001): 29-46.
  • Ármann Jakobsson: "The Individual and the Ideal: The Representation of Royalty in Morkinskinna." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99.1 (2000): 71-86.
  • Ármann Jakobsson: "Rundt om kongen En genvurdering af Morkinskinna." Maal og Minne 1 (1999): 71-90
  • Ármann Jakobsson, "King and Subject in Morkinskinna." Scandinavian Studies 28 (1998): 101–117.
  • Gustav Indrebø: "Harald Haardraade in Morkinskinna." In: Festskrift til Finnur Jónsson, ed. Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen et al. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 192.173-80.
  • Marianne Kalinke: "Sigurðar Saga jórsalafara: The Fictionalization of Fact in Morkinskinna", Scandinavian Studies 56.2 (1984): 152-67.
  • Odd Sandaaker: "Agrip og Morkinskinna. Teksthistoriske randnotar." Maal and Minne (1996). 31-56.

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Remarks

  1. ^ GKS: Den Gamle Kongelige Samling (Eng. "The old royal collection")
  2. ↑ See the website "Scaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages" ( memento of the original from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / abdn.ac.uk
  3. ↑ For the nature and function of this þættir in the Morkinskinna see Ármann Jakobsson, "The Amplified Saga."