Reykjaholtsmáldagi

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The Reykjaholtsmáldagi ( Old Icelandic for "inventory" or "Reykholt Agreement") is an Icelandic copybook . It includes the possessions and rights of Reykholt Church .

The Reykjaholtsmáldagi was compiled over a longer period of time, with the oldest entries dating from around 1185. Some later entries refer directly to the Icelandic politician, writer and historian Snorri Sturluson , who lived in Reykholt from 1206 until his assassination in 1241.

The Reykjaholtsmáldagi is the oldest original document in Icelandic that has survived .

Editions and Literature

  • Reykjaholts-máldagi. The original parchment document about Reykjaholt kirkegods and inventarium i 12. and 13. årh., Litografisk gengivet, including udførlig fortolket and oplyst , Copenhagen 1885 (Samfund til Udgivelse af Gammel Nordisk Litteratur, vol. 14).
  • Hreinn Benediktsson: Early Icelandic Script. As Illustrated in Vernacular Texts from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries , Reykjavík 1965. (Facsimile)
  • Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson: Sýnisbók íslenskrar skriftar , 2nd edition, Reykjavík 2007, p. 12f. (Facsimile and transcription)
  • Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of old Norse literature. The medieval literature of Norway and Iceland (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). 2nd, significantly increased and revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-520-49002-5 .